Abstract EN:

The norman muse is a collection of comic poems written by David Ferrand, a poet and printer from Rouen (1590-1660) for the Puy des palinods (literary society of the palinods), a literary contest organised every eighth december to commemorate the immaculate conception of the holy virgin. This works, written in the purin language, that of the textile workers in Rouen, is the subject of a phonetic, morpho-syntaxic and lexical study; its aim is to determine, in this corpus of twenty-eight books, what belongs to norman dialects, what is peculiar to the french language of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what is to be attributed to the authors's own imagination. The phonetic study tends to reveal that part of the phenomena that have been noted are archaism, witnessed in old and middle french, while another series of phenomena is to be linked to those described by dialectologists as characteristic of the norman dialects north of the joret line. The morpho-syntactic phenomena which are studied are most often witnessed in seventeenth century language.