This study analyzes the linguistic characteristics of private letters written in French in the seventeenth century. It delves into documents previously overlooked in scholarly research that were penned by members of a wide range of social groups including those outside the courtly literary circles of the linguistic purism debate. In this way, it paints a nuanced picture of the linguistic reality of that epoch.

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Katharina Fezer, Tübingen University, Germany.