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John Sturrock, 4 January 1996
L’Accent du souvenir
by Bernard Cerquiglini.
Minuit, 165 pp., frs 99, September 1995,2 7073 1536 2 Show More
by Bernard Cerquiglini.
Minuit, 165 pp., frs 99, September 1995,
“... croûte, which were at one time written as beste, isle or crouste. And whence, also, the title of Bernard Cerquiglini’s thoroughly enjoyable little book, in which he traces the history of the circumflex and the mysteriously strong feelings it has aroused, for and against, over the past 450 years. It is tempting to say, after reading ... ”