The Teaching of French in Tudor and Stuart England

Chapter VI French at the Universities

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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.