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Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse : et autres proverbes

Alain Rey, a man curious about all forms, inventions and distortions of language, but also a man of wit and humor, comes here to comment on the Hundred proverbs of Grandville published in 1845 and illustrated by the brilliant caricatures of the satirical designer then at the top. of his art and his notoriety. This edition corresponds to the happy encounter between the learned lexicographer linguist, Alain Rey, and these anonymous, short, humble “ways of saying”, proposed as truths and easy to remember that are proverbs.