Chapter III

THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGIOUS REFUGEES ON THE TEACHING OF FRENCH IN
ENGLAND--OPENINGS FOR THEM AS TEACHERS--DEMAND FOR TEXT-BOOKS--FRENCH
SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND 114

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 and treatment of
foreigners--Incivility of the common people--Courtesy of the
gentry--Refugees received into English families--French in polite
education--French tutors and text-books--Converse with
foreigners--Shakespeare's French--Professional schoolmasters--No
opening in the grammar schools--French schools--Du Ploich's
school--His Treatise in French and English and method of
teaching--His works in manuscript--Claude Holyband--His _French
Schoolemaister_ and _French Littleton_--His French school--Holyband
as private tutor--His method of teaching--Schools in connection with
the French churches--Schools at Canterbury and elsewhere--Saravia's
school at Southampton--Joshua Sylvester--Place of French in the
public schools of Scotland--In the parish and private schools--No
French grammars produced in Scotland.

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.

CHAPTER V

METHODS OF TEACHING FRENCH--LATIN AND FRENCH--FRENCH AND ENGLISH
DICTIONARIES--STUDY OF FRENCH LITERATURE 179

Usual methods of learning French--Reading and
translation--Pronunciation--Rules of grammar--Importance of
'practice'--Latin and French text-books--Contrast of methods--Grammar
and Practice--Books in French and English--French by
translation--French dictionaries--Holyband's Dictionaries--Dictionary
printed by Harrison--A place given to French in some Latin
dictionaries--Veron--Baret--John Higgins--French-Latin
dictionaries--Cotgrave's great French-English Dictionary--Sherwood's
English-French Dictionary--Howell's editions of Cotgrave--The reading
of French literature--Attitude of French teachers--Favourite
authors--Histories and Memoirs of military life for soldiers and
statesmen.

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.