Andr� Goosse is a Belgian grammarian born in 1926. The son-in-law of Maurice Grevisse, he took over editing and updating Grevisse's last book, Le Bon Usage. In 1988, he married the Belgian writer France Bastia. Professor at the Universit� Catholique de Louvain, he is also the president of the Conseil international de la langue fran�aise. His earliest research was carried out on the work of the 14th century writer from Li�ge, Jean d'Outremeuse. His work, carried out under the direction of Omer Jodogne, turned into a thesis which he defended in 1959, which was published in 1965. Notable among his publications is a work exposing and commenting on the Les rectifications de l'orthographe, which was a report published on the 6th of December 1990 in the Journal officiel de la R�publique fran�aise. Goosse's book, trying to make the debate less personal, was titled La � nouvelle � orthographe, Expos� et commentaires, published by Ed.Duculot in 1991. ISBN 2-8011-0976-2. The topic, according to Goosse, was less of a "reform" than of "developments" aimed at eliminating certain "anomalies et absurdities" as well as "contradictions existing among dictionaries". 

April 16th, 1926 in Liège  /  Died:   Aug 4th, 2018 - aged 93