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Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Edition Not Defined. On the cataloguing page it talks about "this edition" but does not say which edition it is other than to say it was financed with the assistance of the French Ministry of Culture. How Latin was forced by the Humanists of the 16th century on education and by the Catholic Church on its members, as its liturgical language. On the dust jacket: "At the same time it was less than a language, for few individuals even among the clergy, even among the most learned scholars, have ever managed to speak it with any degree of correctness or fluency, let alone elegance. And such people became even rarer with the passage of time. Yet countless children and adolescents underwent, until quite recently, what can only be called years misery in the name of the 'language of Cicero', and few of them even in adult life questioned their parents' and teachers' view that Latin, among other things, sound judgment and 'character'". Introduction of Latin Language.…