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OBJECT
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CLAIM.

DIRECTLY INSPECTED PRIMARY OBJECT

THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.

The Gallica page image was directly inspected. It verifies the historical dictionary form HOSTEL in 1694 within the French hotel family; it does not show the modern accented spelling hôtel and is not claimed as the earliest French or English occurrence.

French1694established

hôtel

The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints HOSTEL as a headword in the historical French family later normalized as hôtel.

“HOSTEL. s. m. Grande maison d’un Prince...”
WITNESS TYPE
Printed book
YEAR
1694
LOCATOR
First edition, tome 1, printed page 572, Gallica leaf f600, left column
REPOSITORY
Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France; digitized by BnF Gallica
SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
ark:/12148/bpt6k12803924, f. 600
FACSIMILE
Linked below
DIRECT INSPECTION
Yes
CONFIDENCE
established
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THE INSPECTION LEDGER

OBSERVED FORMHOSTEL
“HOSTEL. s. m. Grande maison d’un Prince...”
INSPECTION DATE
2026-08-26
METHOD
visual facsimile
INSPECTOR ROLE
SET-U editorial review
EXACT LOCATOR
First edition, tome 1, printed page 572, Gallica leaf f600, left column
CLAIM LIMIT
Verifies HOSTEL as a 1694 French dictionary form in the hotel family. It does not show the modern accented spelling hôtel or establish the earliest French or English occurrence.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE

THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM

TITLE
Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 1 (A–L), première édition
AUTHOR
Académie française
YEAR
1694
PUBLISHER
Jean-Baptiste Coignard
SOURCE TYPE
digitized primary source
CITATION KEY
daf-1694-t1-gallica