 American linguists such as George Boas and Noam Chomsky rediscovered him during the sixties.Cordemoy is also known for his "Histoire de France" on which he worked for 18 years without ever seeing the end, so major were the contradictions he came up against while consulting the works of his predecessors.The work was finally finished by his elder son, Louis-Géraud de Cordemoy, and published after his death.