L’Argot selon Casciani

Representations de l'argot au XIXe siecle

by Denis Delaplace

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Extent: 187 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Literary Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Classiques de l'argot et du jargon

Series volume number: 2

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2009)

ISBN: 9782812400391

5.91 x 8.62 inches

Price: $37.00

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Hardback (Published)

(September 2025)

ISBN: 9782406191339

5.91 x 8.62 inches

Price: $99.00

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Histoire de l’argot by Clement Casciani serves as the preface to the Dictionnaire d’argot et des principales locutions populaires (1894) authored by a certain Jean de La Rue (not, in this case, the pen name for Jules Valles). Drawing on nineteenth-century studies of argot (Nodier, Vidocq, Francisque Michel, Larchey, Victor Hugo, Vitu, among others), this popularized account not only reflects the period’s views on argot but also helped cement them in the popular imagination.

  • By (author) Denis Delaplace