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

[901] New Instructions to the Guardian, 1694, p. 101.

[902] The Compleat Gentleman or Directions for the Education of Youth as to their breeding at home and Travelling Abroad, 1687, pp. 33 sqq.

[903] Eliote seems to have been the first to have described the Grand Tour—in his grammar, Ortho-Epia Gallica (1593). Sherwood followed his example in 1625. After the middle of the century such dialogues assume a more educational and guide-like and less descriptive form.

[904] Lister, A Journey to Paris in the year 1698, p. 2. Lister had previously visited France in about 1668. In 1698 he visited the aged Mlle. de Scudéry and the Daciers, and frequented the French theatres.

[905] Second edition, 1657.

[906] London, 1656. Another edition appeared in 1673, entitled The Voyage of France, or a compleat Journey through France.

[907] As in A Tour in France and Italy made by an English Gentleman (J. Clenchy), 1675 and 1676, reprinted in A Collection of Voyages, 1745, vol. i.; and Remarks on the Grand Tour of France and Italy lately performed by a person of quality (W. Bromley), 1692 and 1693 (when it was entitled Remarks made in Travels through France and Italy with many public inscriptions. Lately undertaken by a Person of Quality). Cp. pp. 220 sqq., supra.

[908] For instance: Le Guide des chemins pour aller et venir par tous les pays et contrées du Royaume de France . . . par C. Estienne, Paris, 1552, 1553; Lyons, 1556. Les Antiquitez et Recherches des Villes, chasteaux, et places plus remarquables de toute la France, 6^e éd., 1631. L. Coulon, Le fidèle conducteur pour le voyage de France montrant exactement les Routes et choses remarquables qui se trouvent en chaque ville, et les distances d'icelles avec un dénombrement des Batailles qui s'y sont données, Paris, 1654.

[909] As Le Guide Fidelle des étrangers dans le voyage de France, Paris, 1672 (by Aloide de St. Maurice); Les Délices de la France ou description des provinces et villes capitales d'icelles, Leyde, 1685; Le Gentilhomme étranger voyageant en France, par le baron G.D.N., 1699—borrowed, without acknowledgement, from Le Guide Fidelle of 1672. Cp. A. Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France depuis la Renaissance jusqu'à la Révolution, Paris, 1885, chapter v.

[910] By La Serre. The former, which first appeared in 1625, went through fifty editions.