French language
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Language and literature, 1932-1957
Sub-Series — Box CLX-A-1627: Series Coll-1972/2
Identifier: Coll-1972/2/5
Scope and Contents
This section contains the following textbooks:
A Second Book of Poetry (English and Scottish) (Glasgow: Robert Gibson & Sons, 1932). Stamp: Grangemouth High School.
Reading and Thinking. Book I, ed. by Richard Wilson (London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons), undated.
L. Janton, ...
Dates:
1932-1957
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from H. Bergsen (in French), 14 July 1914
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/20
Scope and Contents
Bergson thanks Ewart for his letter and writes that he doesn't know the Abbé Breuil personally although he has written to him. Breuil has replied to say that he does not speak English but that he has illustrative slides which will help those who do not know much French.
Dates:
14 July 1914
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Robert Munro, 12 July 1914
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/19
Scope and Contents
Munro writes that the Abbé Breuil is the most brilliant of the modern French school of archaeologists and that if he were to deliver the Munro Lectures his subject ought to be the culture and civilisation of the prehistoric people of Europe. He adds that Breuil has a notable collection of slides illustrating his discoveries, which would help those listening who were not fluent in French.
Dates:
12 July 1914
Manuscript French exercise books of Jane Hay Goodlet, taught by Gabriel Jacques Surenne, 1841; 1843
Item — Box CLX-A-479
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0132
Scope and Contents
These are two well-presented French exercise books created by a twelve-year-old girl named Jane Hay Goodlet, who was under the guidance of Edinburgh's leading French teacher, Gabriel Jacques Surenne. The first exercise book contains twelve single-page essays on various subjects, including French historians, poets, geography, eloquence, and "Les beaux-arts", followed by similar essays in French on British historians, poets, authors, and the sciences. The second exercise book, dated 1843, is...
Dates:
1841; 1843