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    In French, what is Épistolière?

    Question #99998. Asked by author. (Oct 06 08 8:25 PM)


    tig3rsmil3y

    		A épistolière is a woman who writes letters

    http://www.speedylook.com/%C3%89pistoli%C3%A8re.html

    Oct 06 08, 8:31 PM
    edmund80

    		A writer who excels in the art of letter writing.

    Cicero, Descartes and Erasmus are all "épistoliers", so the art of letter writing is not the sole domain of women.

    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89pistolier_(litt%C3%A9rature)

    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A9pistolaire

    "Epistolary" is an adjective in English.
    In current parlance, the equivalent of an épistoliér/-iére would be a correspondent, which is a dry word that does not reflect the French original.

    I don't hear it used often with regards non-liturgical material, but a more useful word would be "epistolist". The writers of the epistles in the Bible are called epistolists, but John Milton is also rightly described as an epistolist, as in the link below.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/correspondent

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/epistolist

    http://books.google.com/books?id=Ud2goDsqfBIC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=descartes+%2B+epistolist&source=web&ots=Ulo1xjMUxy&sig=EzPdxm1_nqp7qxx4b5pQww4MG-8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

    Oct 06 08, 9:19 PM
    author

    		My Webster's mentions both "epistolist" and "epistoler".

    But maybe the "epistoler" is just he who reads from the Biblical epistles in Anglican churches, not the one who writes them?

    http://aolsvc.merriam-webster.aol.com/dictionary/epistoler

    By the way, there are also epistolary novels - novels written as letters - but I don't know the English word for "épistolier" (male) and "épistolière" (female).

    You don't call him or her "epistolary", do you?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary

    Oct 06 08, 9:53 PM
    edmund80

    		Would you settle for an American francophone?
    I assure you that epistolists exist in both genders. In French, the male one is called (un) épistolièr and the female one is called (une) épistolière.
    Author is right when he mentioned that epistoler in English means the reader of an epistle and not the writer.
    In french, we call that person (un)lecteur/(une)lectrice, literally meaning "reader", as in the reader in the celebration of the Holy Mass.

    http://www.ceremoniaire.net/depuis1969/docs/ceremonial_1995_2.html

    Oct 06 08, 11:45 PM

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