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Here it is, 1907: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/%C3%A9dition_Michaud,_1907 https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/%C3%A9dition_Michaud,_... EDIT: my bad

by edweis 2y ago

Here it is, 1907: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/%C3%A9dition_Michaud,_1907 https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Essais/%C3%A9dition_Michaud,_... EDIT: my bad, this is not modern French

RandomThoughts3 2y ago
This is very much modern French. Anything written after 1650 is easy to understand by the average French person and anything written after 1800 is indistinguishable from how French is written nowadays.
draven 2y ago
Looks like the left column is Middle French, the right one is the modern translation.