Old French pronunciation?

Question

My interest in Old and Middle French is largely historical – with texts such as those of Froissart and Monstrelet, and English documents written in Anglo-Norman. But I also have an interest in earlier works such as the *Chanson de Roland* and the *Roman de la Rose*.Ideally, I would want to know how these texts should be pronounced. But the only guides I have found have been general ones – usually covering the whole period of pre-modern French, and clearly aimed at students of phonology.Such guides are too general to identify, for example, the peculiarities in the pronunciation of Froissart, strongly 'picard'. Or of Anglo-Norman, in its various periods.Are there any author-specific, or work-specific, pronunciation guides that anyone can recommend, please?Of course, this affects more modern authors too – Rabelais and Montaigne, certainly, but even Racine and Molière, who surely did not speak like 20th century Académiciens.

Answer 1

Here is a little bit of information that might help with understanding prononciation in Old French.

A combination of two or more letters that represents a single phoneme is called a digraph and is very conventional in Old French which changes the prononciation that we are used to.

Also, Old French uses the International Phonetic Alphabet which you can download to be able to write the words in Old French the accurate way.

Kind regards.