Les maux pour le dire. Chroniques de Cicéron pour la défense du français.

Under the pseudonym of the great rhetorician Cicero, Maurice Calmein published the column "Les maux pour le dire" in the Voix du Midi-Lauragais for two years. In his incisive and humorous entries, he attacks the current drifts of the French language, the invasion of Anglicisms, and a certain pedantry of language that is detrimental to simple and effective communication. The success of this column with the newspaper's readers gave rise to the idea of gathering 90 of these entries in the present collection.