New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women General & Introductory Architecture his grade’s annual competition to

his grade’s annual competition to see who can get a guest to fall in love with them first

and for Annie Carver

Virtually illiterate

Think Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black

Learn the secret – or die trying

New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women General & Introductory Architecture his grade’s annual competition toTwo volumes by a seventeenth century French gentlewoman and teacher, published in English for the first time. According to the few historical records that mention Marguerite Buffet, she lived her entire life in seventeenth century Paris where she taught French to aristocratic women. Buffets vivid example of proper language use in New Observations on the French Language offers a rare glimpse into the life, habits, and culture of seventeenth century