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

by K. Rebillon Lambley

FOOTNOTES:

[707] See accounts in Rye, England as seen by Foreigners.

[708] J. O. Halliwell, Letters of the Kings of England, London, 1846.

[709] Rye, op. cit. p. 153.

[710] "Autobiographie," Bull. de la Soc. de l'Hist. du Protestantisme Français, vii. pp. 343 sqq.

[711] Another famous Frenchman at the Court of James I. was Theodore Mayerne the Court Doctor (cp. Table Talk of Bishop Hurd, Ox. Hist. Soc. Collectanea, ser. 2, p. 390); also Jean de Schelandre and Montchrétien among men of letters. James refused to give audience to the poet Théophile de Viau, exiled for his daring satires. Boisrobert, St. Amant, Voiture, likewise visited England at this period.

[712] Thurot, Prononciation française, i. p. xiv.

[713] Gerbier, Interpreter of the Academy, 1648.

[714] Aufeild: Translation of Maupas's Grammar, 1634.

[715] Young, L'Enseignement en Écosse, p. 78.