I never met a French master who had made his fortune, nor have you, I imagine.
I once met in England a French master who had not written a French grammar.
I was one day introduced to a Frenchman who keeps a successful school in the Midland counties. He makes it a rule to sternly refuse to let his boys go home in the neighboring town before one o'clock on Sundays. When parents ask him as a special favor to allow their sons to come to their house on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning, he answers: "I am sorry I cannot comply with your request. It has come to my knowledge that there are parents who do not insist on their children going to church, and I cannot allow any of my pupils to go home before they have attended divine service."
John Bull made to go to church by a Frenchman! The idea was novel, and I thought extremely funny.
To teach "the art of speaking and writing the French language correctly" is a noble but thankless career in England.
[ In ] France, the Government grants a pension to, and even confers the Legion of Honor upon, an English master [ [13] ] after he has taught his language in a lycée for a certain number of years.
The Frenchman who has taught French in England all his lifetime is allowed, when he is done for, to apply at the French Benevolent Society for a free passage to France, where he may go and die quietly out of sight.