Below are a few ideas to start with.

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Many of the manuscripts in the site may be used to introduce subjects in French civilization, history, language, and literature:

People

• Mary, Queen of Scots/manifest and Queen Elizabeth I/manifest
• William the Conqueror/manifest
• King Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici

• [Kings and Queens](https://french.newberry.t-pen.org/www/manuscripts.html?q=queen

  king)

Places

• Bordeaux
• Châteaux of the Loire Valley
• New France
• Village life in Auvergne

Topics

• Calligraphy/manifest
• Daily life (Digital Collections for the Classroom)
• Fur trade in New France/manifest (see also Champlain map)
• Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
• Warfare and fortresses
• Women and marriage in Ancien Régime France
• Spiritual life [more]

Language & Literature

• Historiography
• French outside France
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
• Romances, novels and tales

Diplomatic Descriptions

Students in a French language or literature class could be given the assignment of writing formal diplomatic descriptions of documents included in this site or elsewhere. Click here to see a model.

Sound recordings

For four of the manuscript documents included in this site, we have provided a recording of a portion of the text. You will find a link to the recording in the Notes field in the metadata for each of these manuscripts:

• Harangue faicte à la Royne mere du Roy à Poictiers par le seigneur de Salevert, presidial de ladicte ville, le lendemain de son arrivée qui fut le vingt huictiesme novembre 1575/manifest
• Investiture de l’Ile d’Orléans donnée au procureur des concessionnaires par le gouverneur général de la Nouvelle-France/manifest
• Les xv joyes Nostre Dame/manifest
• Jehan Marion, Vers d’amour/manifest