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In this article I examine the extent to which the linguistic ideology of the remarqueurs, and notably that expressed by Claude Favre de Vaugelas in his famous Remarks on the French Language of 1647, persists in newspaper and magazine columns on the French language published in France or Belguim since the 1920s. These short articles on the use of French have played an important role in the French press in the twentieth century. I analyse the French language columns from three representative periods in the history the genre: the 1920s and 1930s; 1950-1970, considered by some as the «Golden Age» of the genre; and the last fifteen years. I consider in particular the persistence of certain key concepts — purity, precision or clarity, and the concept of good French usage.

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This page is a summary of: La persistance de l’idéologie linguistique des remarqueurs dans les chroniques de langage de 1925 à nos jours, Circula, January 2015, Universite de Sherbrooke,
DOI: 10.17118/11143/7992.
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