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CALLIÈRES, François de] - Du Bon et du Mauvais Usage dans les manières de s'exprimer. Des manières de parler bourgeoises. Et en quoy elles sont differentes de celles de la Cour. Suite des Mots à la mode. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1693. In-12, (1) f., 241 (1) pp. in granulated brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated. CONLON II, n°6124. first edition. Callières was elected to the Académie française in 1689. His grammatical treatises are of great importance for the study of language in the late 17th century. Callières identifies a large number of expressions introduced at court at the end of the seventeenth century, which he judges to be vicious; many of them are still in common use today.