TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction v

I. From Paris to London under the Merry Monarch 1

II. Did Frenchmen learn English in the Seventeenth Century? 19

III. Specimens of English written by Frenchmen 39

IV. Gallomania in England (1600-1685) 62

V. Huguenot Thought in England (First Part) 77

VI. Huguenot Thought in England (Second Part) 114

VII. Shakespeare and Christophe Mongoye 142

VIII. French Gazettes in London (1650-1700) 149

IX. A Quarrel in Soho (1682) 167

X. The Courtship of Pierre Coste, and other Letters 176

XI. The Strange Adventures of the Translator of Robinson Crusoe, the Chevalier de Thémiseul 207

Index 229