It seems that "what we understand well is clearly stated". It will not be said that Nicolas Boileau was wrong in stating this formula. Because, more than two centuries after its expression, it is still so: clarity is a synonym of clarity.
Is that why we should not hesitate to use words, certainly old-fashioned, but which are of incomparable precision and accuracy! Let us cite the term "contemptible", the definition of which is "who deserves contempt, despicable"; the verb "postpone" which qualifies the fact of "temporarily suspending a case; postpone something "or the adjective" piacular "," which serves to appease divine anger; relating to the rite of atonement, to an atonement ”.
The French dictionary is full of words as complicated as they are perfect. do you know them? Le Figaro offers to test your knowledge.
