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Charles Bally
(French: [bɑji]; 4 February 
1865, Geneva – 10 April 1947, Geneva) 
was a Swiss linguist from the Geneva 
School. He lived from 1865 to 1947 and 
was, like Ferdinand de Saussure, from 
Switzerland. His parents were Jean 
Gabriel, a teacher, and Henriette, the owner 
of a cloth store. Bally was married three 
times: first to Valentine Leirens, followed 
by Irma Baptistine Doutre, who was sent 
into a mental institution in 1915, and 
finally with Alice Bellicot. In addition to 
his edition of de Saussure's lectures, Course in General Linguistics (co-
edited by Albert Sechehaye), Charles Bally also played an important 
role in linguistics. 

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From 1883 to 1885 he studied classical languages and literature in 
Geneva. He continued his studies from 1886 to 1889 in Berlin where he 
was awarded a Ph.D. After his studies he worked as a private teacher 
for the royal family of Greece from 1889 to 1893. Bally returned to 
Geneva and taught at a business school from 1893 on and moved to the 
Progymnasium, a grammar school, from 1913 to 1939. He also worked 
as PD at the university from 1893 to 1913. From 1913 to 1939 he had a 
professorship for general linguistic and comparative Indo-European 
studies which he took over from Ferdinand de Saussure. 
Besides his works about subjecthood in the French language he 
also wrote about the crisis in French language and language classes. He 
was active in interlinguistics, serving as a consultant to the research 
association that presented Interlingua in 1951. Today Charles Bally is 
regarded as the founding-father of linguistic theories of style and much 
honored for his theories of phraseology.In terms of modern stylistics he 
dealt with the expressive function of signs.