The Teaching of French in Tudor and Stuart England

Chapter II The Fifteenth Century

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Triumph of continental French over Anglo-French—“Doux françois de Paris” a foreign language—Standard of French taught in England—Femina—Treatises on Grammar—Barton’s Donait—Epistolaries—Books of conversation in French—The Cambridge manuscript in French and English—First printed books for teaching French—Dialogues in French and English—Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, and Pynson—French by conversation—Approaching improvement in the standard of French taught in England—Palsgrave’s Grammar.

Part II

Tudor Times