frlit1-3, Exercise 1: Print and the language

Model answer:

Printing reached France in the late fifteenth century, and cities such as Paris and Lyon became centres of the book trade, which spread both the learning of ancient Greece and Rome and debates about religion. The status of French rose: a royal ordinance of 1539, often cited, required legal documents to be written in French instead of Latin, and the Pleiade argued that French deserved great poetry.

Check the dates against a reference work.