La rime d'après le Dictionnaire des rimes de Lanoue (1596) - article ; n°1 ; vol.99, pg 107-123

Langue française - Année 1993 - Volume 99 - Numéro 1 - Pages 107-123
Y.-C. Morin This essay examines the rhyme-system of 16th century French as presented by Lanoue (1596) in his rhyming dictionary — certainly the most precise and extensive rhyming dictionary in the history of French — and how it evolved from a strictly phonetic system into the « classical rhyme », a system depending more and more heavily on stereotyped interpretations of a stabilizing conventional spelling, as poets tried to maintain distinctions no longer existing in the language.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.