Frantz Brunet (27 August 1879 – 26 July 1965) was a French linguist. A professor at the

Normal school A normal school or normal college is an institution created to train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum. In the 19th century in the United States, instruction in normal schools was at the high school level, turni ...

at Moulins from 1905 to 1920, he was later an inspector for primary schools in

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is ...

. His main work is th
''Dictionnaire du parler bourbonnais et des régions voisines''
(Paris, 1964), reprinted in 1983 and 2002. He also wrote two little works on Charles Peguy, of whom he was an admirer.

Bibliography

* Pierre Perrin, « La vie et l'œuvre de Frantz Brunet », ''Cahiers bourbonnais'', 1966, n°37, (p. 12–15). * Jean Émile-Guillaumin, « Souvenir sur Frantz Brunet », ''Bulletin de la Société d'émulation du Bourbonnais'', 64, 1er trimestre 1988, (p. 70–74).

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