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Middle French (French: moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th century. [1] [2] It is a period of transition during which:
- Medieval French literature
Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this...
- French language
French ( français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française,...
- Medieval French literature
Middle French. It is the first version of French that is largely intelligible to Modern French speakers, contrary to Old French. Middle French is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th century.
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Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a group of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse.
Francien dialect, the medieval dialect of Old French that furnishes the basis for the literary and official form of the modern French language.
With the imposition of a standardised chancery dialect and the loss of the declension system, the dialect is referred to as Middle French (moyen français). The first grammatical description of French, the Tretté de la Grammaire française by Louis Maigret, was published in 1550.
