Les premières grammaires françaises à l'usage des Persans.

After Eugène Boré's (1816-1891) unsuccessful attempt of 1839, the first French grammar intended for Persian pupils was not published before 1882 and was entitled Orthographie française ou Règles de l'orthographe de la langue française simplifiée et rendues à leurs principes naturels. Its author, Jules Richard (1816-1891), presented just the part pertaining to articulations and parts of speech and never managed to publish the entire work that he prepared for the Teheran polytechnic school pupils and which was to include a specific part for syntax. His son, Joseph Richard (1285 [1868/69]-1354 [1935/36]), tried to overcome this problem by Publishing the Nouvelle méthode pratique et facile pour apprendre la langue française (1894), which is a kind of 'Ahn's method' whereby grammar was reduced to definitions or applications. The Orthographie is especially characterized by the number of theoretical topics presented as footnotes written entirely in French, by the use of rare terms, by some original terminological translations into Persian, and by the neutralization of some French verbal oppositions at the time of the translation of paradigma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]