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

CHAPTER II

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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 _Donait_--Epistolaries--Books of conversation in French--The Cambridge manuscript in French and English--First printed books for teaching French--Dialogues in French and English--Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, and Pynson--French by conversation--Approaching improvement in the standard of French taught in England--Palsgrave's Grammar.