author
P.-M. (Pierre-Marie) Quitard
1792–1882
A 19th-century French writer and lexicographer, he is best remembered for collecting, explaining, and comparing proverbs with a scholar’s care and a reader-friendly touch. His reference works helped preserve the texture of everyday French speech, from sayings and idioms to rhyme and mythology.
2 Audiobooks
Dictionnaire étymologique, historique et anecdotique des proverbes et des locutions proverbiales de la Langue Française en rapport avec de proverbes et des locutions proverbiales des autres langues
by P.-M. (Pierre-Marie) Quitard
Proverbes sur les femmes, l'amitié, l'amour et le mariage
by P.-M. (Pierre-Marie) Quitard
About the author
Pierre-Marie Quitard was a French man of letters born in 1792 and died in 1882. Sources available during this search describe him as a grammarian and dramatist, and library records link his name to a substantial body of reference and literary work published across the 19th century.
He is especially associated with Dictionnaire étymologique, historique et anecdotique des proverbes et des locutions proverbiales de la langue française, a wide-ranging study of French proverbs that also compares them with expressions from other languages. Catalog records also connect him with works on rhyme and with compact dictionaries covering history, geography, biography, and mythology, showing his taste for organizing knowledge in practical, accessible forms.
Although he is not widely known today, Quitard stands out as one of those writers whose books quietly supported generations of readers, students, and language lovers. His work sits at the meeting point of literature, reference writing, and the history of everyday expression.