Semantic transformations of phraseological units (on the example of charite concept)

The article discusses the forms of semantic transformation of phraseological units in French. The object of the research is phraseological units representing the concept of “CHARITĖ”, as well as stable combinations that have the word charité as their component. The material for this study was extracted by the continuous sampling method from the French-Russian phraseological dictionary, ed. ME AND. Retsker, the dictionary of stable expressions of the French language Laruss, scriptures, the encyclopedic dictionary of biblical phraseological units (ESBF) K.N. Dubrovina, Leipzig Language Corps, Google Books Ngram Viewer, an online search service, Russian and French classical works, and French media.