Early Grammar of French
Dubois was the author of the first grammar of the French language to be published in France. The title of this work was In linguam gallicam isagōge, una cum eiusdem Grammatica latino-gallica, ex hebræis, græcis et latinis authoribus, published in Paris in early 1531, less than a year after the very first French grammar, by John Palsgrave, was published in London.
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