CHAPTER VI

FRENCH AT THE UNIVERSITIES 198

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 grammars--Morlet's _Janitrix_--French grammars written in Latin--Antonio de Corro--John Sanford--Wye Saltonstall--Henry Leighton--French grammarians and teachers at Oxford--Robert Farrear--Pierre Bense--French teachers at Cambridge--Gabriel du Grès at Cambridge and Oxford--On the teaching of French--French at the Universities at the time of the Restoration--The French of the Universities and of the fashionable world--French at the Inns of Court--One-sidedness of the University curriculum--Steps taken to supplement it.