The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century

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The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century
Charles Bastide
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As Butler satirically said, the French gave the Enghsh " laws for pantaloons, port- cannons, periwigs and feathers. " ' Every one spoke of " bouillis, ragouts, fricasses, " bordeaux and champagne were drunk instead of national beer. * The City ladies tried to outdo the Court belles. One of them " had always the fashion a month 1 Butler, ofi. At. 2 Spectator, No. 277. 8 HuMras, iii. 923.
* "Put about a cup of ale, is this not better than your foolish French kickshaw claret. " — Shadwell, Epsom-W
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rnK incuKss of roRisMot-Tii a^ -\ i kadkr ok fashion IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 71 before any of the Court ladies ; never wore any- thing made in England ; scarce wash'd there ; and had all the affected new words sent her, before they were in print, which made her pass among fops for a kind of French wit. " ^ The movement, of course, elicited a violent opposition. Poets and dramatists were banded together in denouncing the subservience to France of a portion of English society.


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