Trippault, Léon.

8vo (158 x 101mm.), [8], 311, [1]pp., illustration: woodcut plate containing portrait of the author, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut printer's device on final verso, binding: seventeenth-century mottled calf, flat spine gilt, extremities slightly rubbed

Rép. bibl. xvie siècle, Orléans 284

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Trippault's treatise on the influence of Greek on the French language was originally published by Gibier in 1580. It had its basis in the myth that France's first kings came from Greece, or that France was named for Francion, a son of Hector, who escaped the sack of Troy. Henri Estienne similarly looked for Greek origins for the French language, assimilating the glory of Classical Athens with sixteenth-century France.

Gibier also published other philological and local historical works by Trippault, a jurist in Orléans.