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worlds and words of Claude Mauger  \nJohn Gallagher  \nTo cite this article: John Gallagher (2024) Teaching Europe French: the worldsand words of Claude Mauger, Early Modern French Studies, 46:2, 122-149, DOI:  \n10. 1080/20563035 .2024.2418036  \nTo link to this article: [https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2024.2418036](https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2024.2418036)  \n© 2024 The Author(s) . Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group  \n\n|  Published online: 04 Nov 2024. |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Submit your article to this journal  |\n| | Article views: 592 |\n| | View related articles  |\n|  View Crossmark data |  |\n\nFull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at [https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=yemf20](https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=yemf20)  \nearly modern french studies, Vol. 46 No. 2, December 2024, 122–149  \nTeaching Europe French: the worldsand words of Claude Mauger*  \nJohn Gallagher   \nSchool of History, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK  \nClaude Maugerisa largely forgotten figure today, but hewasthe most influential French teacher in seventeenth-century England, and his work achieved lasting success in print in England and on the continent. This article offers a new account of his career in person and in print, arguing that this standard-bearer for the prestige of French himself lived a more precarious life, and that his influence stretched throughout Europe and North America and touched languages from English and German to Italian and Arabic. It reconstructs Mauger’s networks, including previously undiscussed manuscript material. And it surveys many of the surviving copies of Mauger’s works across three continents to  \n* My first debts are to Katherine Ibbett and the Society for Early Modern French Studies, who invited me to deliver a keynote lecture at the 2023 conference on ‘Mot et Monde/Word and World’ in Oxford. Sarah AlynStacey invited me to give the 2024 Annual Lecture in French at Trinity College Dublin on Mauger, and I’m grateful to audiences at St Andrews and at the University of Manchester conference on ‘The Early Modern Transnational Book’ for their comments and suggestions on aspects of this material. I am especially grateful to special collections librarians and archivists on three continents without whose help this work would not have been possible. For information on the copies cited in this article, including the provision of photographs and provenance background, I would especially like to thank Catherine Ahearne at Maynooth University; Mark Bainbridge at Worcester College, Oxford; Louise Bareham at Faversham Town Council; Julie Blyth at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Joanna Bowring at Exeter College, Oxford; Helen Carron at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Steph Carter at Carlisle Cathedral Library; Adam Crothers at St John’s College, Cambridge; Emily Dourish at Cambridge University Library; Jennifer Fain at Bowdoin College; Sophie Floate at Balliol College, Oxford; Nathaniel de Gala at the Huntington Library; Julie Greenhill at the University of St Andrews; Graham Greer at the Newberry Library; Genny Grim at Pembroke College, Cambridge; Grace Hale at the University of Virginia; Marianne Hansen at Bryn Mawr; Steven Newman at York Minster Old Library; Aaron Pratt at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; Christine Reynolds at Westminster College Library; Callum Sharpe at the University of Edinburgh; Megan Speechley and Nick Hearn at the Taylorian Institution, Oxford; Catherine Sutherland at Magdalene College, Cambridge; Steven Van Impe and Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly at the Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp; Heather Wiegert at the University of Illinois at Ur","cbCainxfWV8eKM9v","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainxfWV8eKM9v","pdf",3247137,29,"English","# Introduction\n## Claude Mauger in English theatre and public memory\n## Networks and manuscript evidence\n## Print circulation across Europe and North America\n## Multilingual impact and surviving copies","[{\"question\":\"What does the article claim about Claude Mauger’s influence?\",\"answer\":\"It presents Mauger as the most influential French teacher in seventeenth-century England, with influence that stretched across Europe and North America and touched multiple languages.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article support its account of Mauger’s career?\",\"answer\":\"It reconstructs Mauger’s networks and incorporates previously undiscussed manuscript material alongside an assessment of surviving printed copies.\"},{\"question\":\"Which languages does the article say Mauger’s work affected?\",\"answer\":\"It links his influence to languages including English, German, Italian, and Arabic, alongside the broader context of multilingual reading.\"}]","Teaching Europe French - the worlds and words of Claude Mauger | PDF",10]