CHAPTER IV

HUGUENOT TEACHERS OF FRENCH--OTHER CLASSES OF FRENCH TEACHERS--RIVALRIES IN THE PROFESSION--THE "DUTCH" AND ENGLISH TEACHERS 155

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 grammars, and _Jardin de Vertu_--The _French Methode_--G. de La Mothe--His French Alphabet and method of teaching--French teachers from the Netherlands--Roman Catholic schoolmasters--Objections raised against French teachers--The right of the English to teach French--John Eliote--His attack on French teachers--His love of Rabelais and debt to French literature--His 'merrie vaine'--The _Ortho-Epia Gallica_ and his other works.