Why were noble girls in 16th Century sent to France Court, sometimes?

Question

For example Boleyn sisters. Their parents sent them to France court.

Why were they being sent?

What did they do in France court?

Were French noble girls also sent to British court?

Answer 1

A Court was kinda like a party, but you stayed their for a week to two monthes to a lifetime. if you wern't royal ( ex. king queen prince princess duke duchess count contessa or countess or even a lord or lady) but were high born you would be an assistant to a royal but not treated as if you were a maid or something. Girls were sent to find husbands and guys were sent to fi nd wives.

Answer 2

To find a partner.

Answer 3

Mary and Anne Boleyn seem to have joined Henry VIII's sister Mary as ladies-in-waiting when she married King Louis XII of France.  Anne had already been living at the court of Margaret of Austria. In 'Sisters to the King'  Maria Perry writes, of the entry into Abbeville of Mary:

'Somewhere in this flashing parade of wealth and beauty rode Mary Boleyn, the elder daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, Henry's semi-permanent ambasador in the Low Countries.  His younger daughter, Anne, had been sent the previous year to Margaret of Austria's court, which was regarded as one of the finest finishing schools in Europe.  She was said to be making excellent progress with her French, and Mary Tudor had specifically requested Anne as one of her demoiselles d'honneur. Sir Thomas had written with some embarrasment asking Margaret to send his daughter back, for having been involved in the previous marriage negotiations, he knew how bitterly the Regent felt over the repudiation of her nephew.  In her first weeks at Malines, Anne had copied out her letters home, giving the impression of perfect French.  Later she wrote from the Regent's summer place of La Vure, where Maitre Semmonet instructed the young ladies in dictation.  Her letter apologizing for her erratic grasp of French spelling is a gem in the annals of orthography.  However, she had obviously mastered conversational French and, reluctantly, Margaret parted with her, though she did not join Mary's retinue in time for the entry in Abeville.'

In 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' Antonia Fraser writes:

'Only mary Boleyn would return with 'The French Queen' now Duchess of Suffolk, to England the following year after the death of Louis XII.  Anne stayed on in the household of the new French Queen, Claude, and remained in France for the next six or seven years.  She may well have been present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.  She became, in effect, a Frenchwoman, or one who would be regarded as such by an English court, already predisposed to be dazzled by all things French, from clothes to manners.  She also conceived a great love of things French, not only telanguage, which she could speak "ornately and plain" but French poetry and music.

It is true that there were other less agreeable aspects of the French court, the lechery of King Francois, for example, was of a very different degree from the mild, jolly affairs indulged in by King Henry.  The household of his wife Queen Claude to which Anne was attached was, however - perhaps predictably under the circumstances - extremely strict.  Certainly Anne Boleyn learnt the art of pleasing at the French court, but it was the art of pleasing by her wit and accomplishments - sophisticated conversation, rallying remarks, flirtatious allusions, these were her weapons, there was courtly promise, perhaps, but no question of fulfilment.  When Anne Boleyn returned to england there were then no louche whispers surrounding her name.'

If a foreign princess married an English king, then she would bring ladies of her own nationality with her when she married the King.  Some of them would stay with her, others would return to their own country after a while.  I don't know if French girls were sent to the English court to get an education though,as the english court at that time was generally considered less polished and sophisticated than the French court.