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Jean-Charles Laveaux
Jean-Charles Laveaux (17 November 1749, Troyes – 15 March 1827, Paris) was a French grammarian and translator.
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Also a journalist, an historian and translator, he wrote several dictionaries among which his "Dictionnaire synonymique" and his "Dictionnaire raisonné des difficultés grammaticales et littéraires" left a mark in the history of French lexicography.
After studying at Troyes and Paris, Jean-Charles Laveaux was teacher of French in Basel, then professor of French literature in Stuttgart
Jean de la Péruse and the "Aman" (1561) of . Jodelle was a rapid worker, but idle and fond of dissipation. His friend Ronsard said that his published poems gave no adequate idea of his powers.
Jodelle's works are collected (1868) in the "Pléiade française" of Charles Marty-Laveaux. The prefatory notice gives full information of the sources of Jodelle's biography, and La Mothe's criticism is reprinted in its entirety.
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