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The term 'Levant', as the author comments on the first page of this work, 'n'est plus guère de mode aujourd'hui', due to the negative connotations it has acquired at different times. However, he chooses the term as the one which best encompasses the area under consideration, in a linguistic and cultural sense, without taking into account political boundaries. He is concerned with the area comprising all the countries bordering the Eastern Mediterranean, the coastal areas and also the 'arrière-pays', all of which have, for many centuries, enjoyed a 'rapport privilégié' with the French language. The objective of this book is to chart those relationships and consider how they have...