Chapter II: Introduction: v

I. FROM PARIS TO LONDON UNDER THE MERRY MONARCH 1

II. DID FRENCHMEN LEARN ENGLISH IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY? 19

III. SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH WRITTEN BY FRENCHMEN 39

IV. GALLOMANIA IN ENGLAND (1600-1685) 62

V. HUGUENOT THOUGHT IN ENGLAND (FIRST PART) 77

VI. HUGUENOT THOUGHT IN ENGLAND (SECOND PART) 114

VII. SHAKESPEARE AND CHRISTOPHE MONGOYE 142

VIII. FRENCH GAZETTES IN LONDON (1650-1700) 149

IX. A QUARREL IN SOHO (1682) 167

X. THE COURTSHIP OF PIERRE COSTE, AND OTHER LETTERS 176

XI. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE TRANSLATOR OF
ROBINSON CRUSOE, THE CHEVALIER DE THEMISEUL 207

INDEX 229

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ON THE ROAD TO CALAIS (see p. 4) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

THE FORTUNE-TELLER, AFTER ARNOULT 36

A FRENCH COQUETTE AT HER TOILET-TABLE 66

THE DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH AS A LEADER OF FASHION 70

"L'ANGLAIS," POPULAR REPRESENTATION OF AN ENGLISHMAN,
_c._ 1670, AFTER BONNART 74

A SCHEME OF THE PERSECUTION 100

JEAN CLAUDE, THE HUGUENOT DIVINE 120

LOUIS XIV. DESTROYS HERETICAL BOOKS 140

"NOUVELLES ORDINAIRES DE LONDRES," NUMBER I 156

AT VERSAILLES, AFTER BONNART 164

THE FRENCH TAILOR, AFTER ARNOULT 168

PIERRE BAYLE, REFUGEE AND MAN OF LETTERS 204

JEAN-BAPTISTE COLBERT, MARQUIS DE SEIGNELAY, SECRETARY
OF STATE, 1690, AFTER MIGNARD 222

ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY