An introduction to old French

AN
INTRODUCTION
TO
OLD
FRENCH
Vs.
1 .
BY
THE
SAME
AUTHOR
Third
Edition.
First Steps in French History, Literature, and Philology.
'Hommes de Lettres" Series of French Classics.
VOL. I. : VOLTAIKE'S SIIOKT PROSE TALES.
In Preparation. Old French The History Handbook Commentary and Literature of Romance and Phonetics. of the Anglo-Norman Dialect.
Philology.
AN
INTRODUCTION
TO
OLD
FRENCH
BY
F.
F.
ROGET
. ' LDI \TE OF GENEVAUNIVERSITY, LECTURER THE FRENCH ON LANGUAGE AND LITllIî \ rri; r, AND OS KuMA.MEPHILOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY ST. ANDREW, OF
THIRD
WILLIAMS
AND
XOKGATE
14. HENRIETTA
20, SOUTH
STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON
FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH
AND 7, BROAD STREET, OXFORD
1896
First
Printed
1886.
Reprinted Xew Type from 1894.
PREFACE
TO
FIRST
EDITION
THIS book contains no independent research and little scientific method. Suggestedby some acquaintancewith the difficulties of students who begin to read Old French,
it has been written for the convenience of candidates for
the L.L.A.. title of St. Andrews University, and perchance may be found useful by students working under the Cambridge University schemefor a tripos in Méditeval and
Modern Languages. Professor Crombie, of St. Andrews, for his kind
encouragement, and Mr. G. Saintsbury, for a timely hint regarding the scopeof this work, have my thanks. The excellent works of ...