Abstract
When Charles Fontaine, in 1557-1558, offered the four sons of Henri II the translation of four collections of texts of ancient wisdom, he joined a vast pedagogical movement which had long destined these texts for young children, with the double aim of transmitting knowledge and educating princes. Fontaine’s humanist education led him to rely on the texts which Erasmus had reshaped, gathered and circulated in Etienne Dolet’s Latin edition of 1538. Charles Fontaine delivered these texts to the young princes, often with commentaries aimed at extracting their particular “salt”, and in faithful translations which met the demands of the humanist instructors at Henri II’s court, who proved the worthy successor to Francis I in this educational enterprise.
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