قراءة كتاب The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century

تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"

‏اللغة: English
The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century

The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century

تقييمك:
0
No votes yet
المؤلف:
دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
الصفحة رقم: 7

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@37905@[email protected]#FNanchor_10_10" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">[10] Lettres de Locke, p 38.

[11] Mémoires de Gourville, p. 539 (1663).

[12] Fidèle Conducteur pour le voyage d'Angleterre (1654).

[13] Diary, 13th July 1650.

[14] Diary, 12th July 1649.

[15] Jusserand, French Ambassador at the Court of Charles II.

[16] Diary, 12th July 1650.

[17] Moreau de Brazey, Guide d'Angleterre, p. 72.

[18] Ibid. p. 73.

[19] State Papers, Dom., 1668-1669, p. 155.

[20] Moreau de Brazey, Guide d'Angleterre, p. 75.

[21] Ibid. p. 76.

[22] Angliæ Notitia, ii. p. 254 (1684).

[23] This Bernard or Bénard styles himself elsewhere: "Secretary to the King for English, Welsh, Irish, and Scotch" (es langues angloise, galoise, irlandoise, et escossoise).

[24] Voyages de M. Payen, 1663.

[25] French Grammar, 1662.

[26] Itinerary, 1617.

[27] Eva Scott, Travels of the King, pp. 279-80.

[28] Chamberlayne, op. cit. ii. p. 254.

[29] Jusserand, French Ambass. p. 206.

[30] Jusserand, idem. p. 193.

[31] Sorbière, Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre, 1664.

[32] Guide, pp. 156-58.

[33] Ibid. p. 293.

[34] Jusserand, op. cit.


CHAPTER II

Did Frenchmen Learn English in the Seventeenth Century?

It is generally supposed that no Frenchman before Voltaire's time ever took the trouble to learn English. Much evidence has been adduced in support of this opinion. In one of Florio's Anglo-Italian dialogues, an Italian traveller called upon to say what he thinks of English, answers that it is worthless beyond Dover.[35] In 1579, Jean Bernard, "English Secretary" to Henri III. of France, deplored the fact that English historians wrote in their mother-tongue, because no one understood them

Pages