The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;

Name: The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;
Author: Abel Boyer

by Abel Boyer

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The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Turgut Dincer, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-04-07

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Public domain in the USA.

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Wit and humor Anecdotes

About the author

Abel Boyer

1667–1729

A French-born writer and lexicographer who rebuilt his life in England after fleeing as a Huguenot, he became known for making language learning and reference books more accessible to readers. His dictionaries, grammars, and historical writing helped secure a lasting place in the literary world of early eighteenth-century London.

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