The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period

In the meantime French grammars were being published in England in considerable numbers.[1043] So plentiful were they that there was "scarce anything to be seen anywhere but Fre...

Religion, the question of all questions in the sixteenth century, was destined, incidentally, to exercise a great influence on the teaching of French in England. The conflicts r...

One of the favourite methods of learning French was a sojourn in France. To speak the language well a visit there was considered imperative, and to speak it "as one who had neve...

The two most popular French tutors at the Court of Henry VIII. were undoubtedly Giles Duwes and John Palsgrave. Palsgrave is the only one of these early French tutors who is wel...

At the beginning of the sixteenth century the gradual changes which brought about the extinction of Anglo-French were complete to all intents and purposes; this corrupt form of...

From their very first appearance the voluminous French romances of the time enjoyed great popularity in England,[824] partly, perhaps, on account of the lack of a supply of simi...

The first important grammar of the French language was printed in England and written by an Englishman. This enterprising student was John Palsgrave, "natyf de Londres et gradué...

The coming of the Stuarts strengthened considerably the connexion between France and England. French was widely used at the Court of James I. The King himself does not appear to...

We have seen that some of the refugees who came to England as a result of the persecutions in France and the Netherlands were professional schoolmasters; others joined the profe...

When, in the middle of the seventeenth century, England was torn in twain by civil war and party quarrels, even the Puritans willingly sent their children to be brought up in Fr...

The French teachers of London at the time of the Restoration, chief amongst whom were Claude Mauger, Paul Festeau, Pierre Lainé, and Guillaume Herbert, all urged students to tra...

One of the most noted teachers of English as well as of French was Robert Sherwood, who in 1632 completed his English-French Dictionary which was appended to the new edition of...

Eliote gives some information concerning the fees charged by French teachers in the later part of the sixteenth century. He asserts that the usual charge was a shilling a week,[...

In the second half of the seventeenth century we come across a band of French teachers in London, which corresponds, in importance, to that which grouped itself round Claude Hol...

Merchants, always a very important and influential class in England, claim a place by the side of the higher classes as learners of French. They were continually in need of fore...

These great changes which took place in the status of French in England did not, however, affect fundamentally the popularity of the language: they had to do with Anglo-French a...

Ferin le boulengier Fierin the baker Vend blanc pain et brun. Selleth whit brede and brown. Il a sour son grenier gisant He hath upon his garner lieng Cent quartiers de bled. On...

The universities set the grammar schools the example by neglecting the study of French and other subjects necessary to a polite education. Even the limited encouragement given t...

by comparing it with the English column, and then to cover over the French version, and attempt to translate the English into French. "This I have learned by long experience to...

[1027] Flecknoe, _Characters_, 1673. The 1665 edition of his _Aenigmatical Characters ..._, 1665, contains a description in French of the _Tour à la Mode_: ". . . C'est une bata...

French grammars after the Restoration--Pierre de Lainé, tutor to the children of the Duke of York--The _Princely Way to the French Tongue_--Guy Miège--His Dictionaries--His Fren...

Effects of the persecution of the Protestants on the teaching of French in England--Protestant refugees--Registers and returns of aliens--French churches in London--Reception an...

Vogue of French romances in England--Dorothy Osborne--Pepys on French literature--His French books--French text-books and the _précieux_ spirit--William Herbert--His criticism o...

French tutors at Court--John Palsgrave and Giles Duwes--Palsgrave's _Esclarcissement_--The pronunciation of French--His second and third books--The vocabulary--The _Introductori...

Travel in France and on the Continent--In the suite of ambassadors--Children in France--Course of studies--Girls in France--Objections to children being sent to France--France a...

The French language in England in the time of the early Stuarts--In the royal family--French tutors--John Florio--Guy Le Moyne--Massonet--Sir Robert Le Grys--French among the la...

French at the Court of the Tudors--English neglected by foreigners--Latin a spoken language--Defective pronunciation of the English--Interest in modern languages awakened--Frenc...

Importance of the Huguenot teachers in London--St. Paul's Churchyard the centre of the profession--The group of Normans--Robert Fontaine--Jacques Bellot--His French and English...

Latin the language of the Universities--Retention of the use of French formulae--Modern languages read--French a relaxation from 'severer studies'--French tutors and French gram...

French grammars in mediaeval England--The use of the French language--Latin, French, and English vocabularies--French at the Universities--Popularity of French in the thirteenth...

Robert Sherwood, teacher of French and English--His school and _French Tutour_--William Colson, another English teacher--His 'method' and writings--Maupas's French grammar in En...

Usual methods of learning French--Reading and translation--Pronunciation--Rules of grammar--Importance of 'practice'--Latin and French text-books--Contrast of methods--Grammar a...

Gallomania in England after the Restoration--The royal family in France--Their knowledge of the language--English courtiers and gentry in France--Men of letters in France--Frenc...

Triumph of continental French over Anglo-French--"Doux françois de Paris" a foreign language--Standard of French taught in England--_Femina_--Treatises on Grammar--Barton's _Don...

The Protestant schools and Academies--A group of English students at Saumur--Travellers at the French Universities--A method of travel--Attitude of the French teachers to the to...

Merchants and the study of French--Text-books for merchants--Relations with the Netherlands--The 'book from Anvers'--Barlement's book of dialogues--Meurier's manuals for teachin...

The Blois group of French teachers--Claude Mauger and his French grammar--Its popularity and development--Mauger's Letters--Other writings--Life in London--Teaches English--Maug...