History of the language
Francorium reads today’s French alongside the dictionaries that witnessed it: Littré (1873, with its 1877 supplement) and the Académie française (1935) — with more witnesses to come.
The witnesses
- Littré — Dictionnaire de la langue française — 1863-1873 · Supplément 1877
- Académie française — 8e édition — 1932-1935
Vanished words
Words attested in the historical witnesses but absent from Francorium’s contemporary nomenclature keep a full entry, clearly marked. Absence from the nomenclature does not by itself prove the word has left the language entirely.
Dated citations
Littré’s citations now carry their authors’ dates — from Malherbe to Hugo — anchoring each sense in its century.