ABSTRACT
The relation between education and works published in French in the sixteenth century is a complex one, especially as the majority of those who sought formal education beyond basic reading, writing and counting did so in Latin, rather than the vernacular. Hence, in the French-speaking world, the books produced as tools for the formal educational process in the sixteenth century tended to be in Latin, and not in French. Thus there were few points of contact between the formal educational process (intended for a male elite) and vernacular printing in French.
