Le bon air latin
Paperback
Series: Essais
ISBN13: 9782213701066
Publisher: Fayard
Published: Aug 24 2016
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
C'est lui qui inspire au français sa richesse d'invention lexicale, sa précision grammaticale, sa musicalité propre et - bien peu s'en rendent compte - sa stabilité dans la traversée des siècles. Si les Français peuvent encore aujourd'hui lire Descartes, Molière, Voltaire ou Victor Hugo, c'est parce que, parmi les forces vives et fécondes qui poussent à l'évolution d'une langue, l'influence latine a toujours exercé sa modération sur le français.
Un français coupé de sa respiration latine, tel que le projettent les réformes successives de l'Éducation nationale - au nom d'un égalitarisme qui ne profite qu'aux initiés -, c'est le baragouin que nous voyons se répandre autour de nous dans les médias, dans les arts, dans la politique, dans le commerce, dominé par le pire de ce que nous pouvons emprunter à la belle langue anglaise. On réussira ainsi à en dégoûter non seulement les étrangers qui continuent de s'intéresser à notre culture, mais surtout les Français eux-mêmes.
Certes, l'« air du latin, sous la férule des maîtres, n'a pas toujours soufflé telle une douce brise, mais il ne tient qu'à nous maintenant de lui rendre toutes ses folles bouffées et de le faire circuler librement dans une fidélité avertie à sa tumultueuse histoire.
Il n'y va donc pas de la nostalgie de quelques pédants grincheux mais de notre avenir. Quel français voulons-nous ? À cette question répondent les contributeurs prestigieux de ce volume. Ils abordent sans érudition qui pèse la question de la langue dans toutes ses perspectives.
Ce bon air latin fournit au grand public l'information indispensable pour se prononcer sur un sujet essentiel puisqu'il conditionne la vitalité de l'esprit français dans le monde de demain.
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