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A Short History of French Literature

George Saintsbury

_Antioche, Chanson d'_, 20, 39, 48, 99. _Antiquites de Rome_, 203. _Antony_, 530. _Apologie pour Herodote_, 166, 194. Argenson, Rene Louis de Voyer, Marquis d' (1694-1757), memoir-writer, 442. Arnauld, A. (1612-1694), Port Royalist, 338, 374. Arnault, A. V. (1766-1834), poet and fabulist, 403. Arthur, 34. tale of, its origins, 34, 151. ARTHURIAN ROMANCES, 34-42, 46 note. Arthurian cycle, French order of, 35, 97. Romances, spirit and literary value of, 38. comedy of, 48. social characteristics of, 46. Arvers, Felix (1806-1851), poet, 548. _Asseneth_, 147. _Assises de Jerusalem_, 144. Assonance, 11, 27, 63. _Astree_, 319. _Athalie_, 302, 303, 306. Auberi of Besancon (12th cent.), poet, 28. Aubignac, Francois Hedelin, Abbe d' (1604-1676), dramatist, novelist, and critic, 293, 322. Aubigne, Agrippa d' (1550-1630), poet and historian, 212, 213, 253, 254. _Aucassin et Nicolette_, 66, 149. extract from, 150. Audefroy le Bastard (12th cent.), trouvere, 63. Augier, E. (b. 1822), dramatist, 553. Aulnoy, Marie C., Comtesse d' (d. 1720), tale-teller, 328. Autran, Joseph (1813-1877), poet and dramatist, 555. Baif, Jean Antoine de (1532-1592), poet, 196, 198, 205, 206, 210, 226. ---- Lazare de (?-1547) translator, 219. Balada, 31. Ballade, 101. _Ballade des Dames du Temps jadis_, 158. Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850), novelist, 532, 535, 537, 542. Balzac, Jean Guez de (1594-1655), essayist and letter-writer, 355, 356. Banville, Th. de (b. 1820), poet, 549. Barbey d'Aurevilly, J. (b. 1808), miscellaneous writer, 557. Barbier, Auguste (1805-1882), poet, 545. _Barbier de Seville_, 413. _Barlaam and Josaphat_, 81. Baron (1643-1729), comic writer and actor, 317. Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste du (1544-1590), poet, 211, 212. Barthelemy, Louis, Abbe (1750-1812), scholar, 427. Bassompierre, Francois, Marechal de, memoir-writer, 337. _Bastard de Bouillon_, 20, 99. Baude, Henri (1430-1495), poet, 163. Baudelaire, C. (1821-1866), poet and critic, 549, 550. _Baudouin de Sebourc_, 20, 99. Bayle, P. (1647-1706), philosopher and encyclopaedist, 375. Beaumarchais, Caron de (1731-1799), dramatist, 413. _Bele Erembors_, 63. _Belisaire_, 458. Bellay, Guillaume (1491-1543) and Martin (?-1559) du, memoir-writers, 256. Bellay, Joachim du (1524-1560), poet, 202, 204, 207, 210, 219, 270. Belleau, Remy (1528-1577), poet, 204, 226. Belloy, Burette de (1727-1775), dramatist, 408. Benedictine students, 503. Benoist de Sainte More (1154-1189), trouvere and chronicler, 44, 45, 79. Benserade, Isaac de (1612-1691), poet, 278. Beranger, Pierre Jean de (1780-1857), poet, 511, 512. Bergerac, Cyrano de (1620-1655), dramatist and novelist, 308, 324. Bergier, Nicolas Sylvestre (1718-1790), theologian, 460. Berlioz, H. (1803-1869), miscellaneous writer, 566. Bernard, C. de (1805-1850), novelist, 557. Beroalde de Verville (1558-1612), tale-teller, 194. Bersuire, Pierre (1290-1352), translator, 143. Bertaut, Jean (1552-1611), poet, 338. _Berte aux grans Pies_, 21, 93. Bertin, Antoine (1752-1790), poet, 401. Bertrand, L. (1807-1841), poet, 548. Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of (1660-1734), memoir-writer, 344. Besenval, Pierre Victor, Baron de (1722-1791), memoir-writer, 442. Bestiaries, 79, 145. Beyle, Henri (1783-1842), novelist and critic, 517. Beza, Theodore (1519-1605), dramatist and translator, 218, 231. Bible, 78. _Bibliotheque des Romans_, 502. Billaut, A. (1600-1662) poet, 280. Bichat, M. F. X. (1771-1802), scientific writer, 501. Blanc, L. (1813-1882), historian, 577. _Blancandin et l'Orguilleuse d'Amour_, 96. _Blandin de Cornoalha_, 30. Blason, 210. _Blasphemateurs_, 121. _Blonde d'Oxford_, 98. Blot (1610-1655) poet, 278. Bodel, Jean (b. 1269), trouvere, 42, 91, 111. Bodin, Jean (1530-1596), lawyer, 248. _Boethius_, Provencal poem on, 28, 29. Boetie, Etienne de la (1530-1563), poet and political writer, 209, 242, 243, 249. Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711), poet and critic, 284-287. Boisrobert, F. Le Metel de (1592-1662), poet and dramatist, 278. Bonald, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de (1754-1840), political writer, 498, 515. Bordigne, Charles de (16th cent.), poet, 171. Borel, P. (1809-1859), poet and novelist, 547. Bornier, H. de (b. 1825), dramatist, 556. Borron, Robert and Helie de (12th and 13th cent.), 35, 36. Bossuet, Jacques Benigne (1627-1704), theologian and preacher, 380-383. Bouchardy, Joseph (1810-1870), dramatist, 553. Bouchet, Guillaume (d. 1607), tale-teller, 194. Bouchet, Jehan (1476-1555), historian and poet, 171, 172, 194. Bouciqualt, Jean le Maigre (d. 1421), memoir-writer, 105. Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811), traveller, 502. Bouilhet, L. (1821-1872), poet, 550. Boulainvilliers, Henri de (1658-1722), historian and political writer, 438. Bourdaloue, Louis (1632-1704), theologian, 387. _Bourgeois Gentilhomme_, 312. Boursault, Edme (1638-1708), dramatist, 315. _Bradamante_, 224. Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Abbe de (1540-1614), memoir-writer, 249-252. Brebeuf, Guillaume de (1618-1661), poet, 287. Breu-doble, 31. Brienne, Comte de (17th cent.), memoir-writer, 339. Brizeux, Auguste (1803-1858), poet, 546. Brodeau, Victor (1470-1540), poet, 177. Brosses, Ch. de (1709-1777), miscellanist, 503. Brunetiere, F., critic, 565. Brueys, D. A. de (1640-1725), dramatist, 317. _Brun de la Montaigne_, 26, 92. Brunetto Latini (1220-1294), scholar, 145, 152. _Bueves de Commarchis_, 93. Buffon, George Lewis Leclerc, Count de (1707-1788), naturalist, 499. _Bug Jargal_, 521. Buttet, Claude (16th cent.), poet, 209. Cabanis, J. P. G. (1757-1808), scientific writer, 501. Calmet, Dom Augustin (1672-1757), biblical historian, 440. Calvin, Jean (1509-1564), theologian, 230, 231. Campistron (1656-1737), dramatist, 307, 316. _Candide_, 423. Canso, 30. Cantilenae, 7, 62. _Caracteres_ of La Bruyere, 365. Carloix, Vincent (16th cent.), memoir-writer, 254. _Carte de Tendre_, 321. Cassel, glossary of, 3. Castelnau, Michel de (1500-1592), memoir-writer, 257. _Castoiement d'un Pere a son Fils_, 81. Caylus, Madame de (1673-1729), memoir-writer, 344. Cazotte, Jacques (1720-1792), novelist, 426. _Cenacle_, the, 530, 540. _Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles_, 148, 283. Chamfort, N. (1741-1794), moralist and critic, 465, 466. Champcenetz, (1759-1794), journalist, &c., 464, 465. Champier, Symphorien (1472-1535), poet, 171. Chanson, 66, 511, 512. _Chanson d'Alixandre_, 42, 43, 46. _Chanson d'Amour_, 66. _Chanson de Roland_, argument of, 13. passage from, 14. _Chanson des Albigeois_, 30, 31. Chansonnettes, 66. CHANSONS DE GESTES, 2, 6, 7, 9-24, 37, 43, 47, 50, 75, 76, 99. _Chanson des Rues et des Bois_, 524. _Chansons du XV'ieme Siecle_, 166. Chapelain, Jean (1595-1674), poet, 279, 285, 301, 349. Chapelle, C. E. L. (1626-1686), poet, 278. Chardry (13th cent.), trouvere, 81. _Charlemagne a Constantinople, Voyage de_, 21. Charlemagne in _Chansons_, 13, 14, 19, 22. Charleval, C. J. L. Faucon de Risseigneur de (1612-1693), poet, 278. _Charroi de Nimes, le_, 19. Charron, Pierre (1541-1603), moralist and theologian, 247, 248. Chartier, Alain (1390-1458), poet, 102, 105, 144, 165, 169, 270. ballade from, 108. extract from _Curial_, 150. Chasles, P. L. (1798-1873), critic, 565. Chassignet, J. B. (1578-1620), poet, 276. Chastellain, Georges (1403-1475), chronicler, 134, 148, 164. Chateaubriand, Francois Auguste de (1768-1848), novelist and miscellaneous writer, 429, 430. Chatillon, A. de (1810-1884), poet, 548. Chaulieu, Abbe de (1639-1720), poet, 288. Chaussee, Nivelle de la (1692-1754), dramatic poet, 411, 415. _Chef d'oeuvre Inconnu_, 533. Chenedolle, C. de (1769-1833), poet, 403, 468. Chenier, Andre Marie de (1762-1794), poet, 402, 403. Chenier, Marie Joseph (1764-1811), poet, critic, and journalist, 401, 403, 519. Cherbuliez, V. (b. 1832), novelist, 562. _Chetifs_, 20. _Cheval de Fust_, 93. _Chevalerie Ogier de Danemarche, la_, 20. _Chevalier a la Charrette_, extract from, 40, 41. _Chevalier as Deux Espees_, 97. _Chevalier au Cygne_, 20. _Chevalier au Lyon_, 37, 38. Chivalry, spirit of, 29, 38. Cholieres, Sieur de (16th cent.), 194. Chrestien de Troyes (d. c. 1195), trouvere, 37, 38, 39, 40. Chrestien, Florent (1541-1596), translator and political writer, 260. _Christ, Passion du_, 112. _Chronique de du Guesclin_, 75. _Chronique de Messire Jacque de Lalaing_, 148. _Chronique des Quatre Premiers Valois_, 131. _Chronique de Rains_, 130. _Chronique du Regne de Charles IX_, 537. _Chronique scandaleuse_ of Jean de Troyes, 136. _Chroniques_ of Froissart, 132. _Chroniques Grandes et Inestimables, du Grant et Enorme Geant Gargantua_, 185. _Chroniques_ of Jean Lebel, 131, 132, 133. _Chute d'un Ange_, 514. _Cinna_, 207. _Cinq Mars_, 544. Clari, Robert de (12th cent.), chronicler, 130. Claude, Jean (1619-1687), theologian, 379. Claveret (17th cent.), dramatist, 293. _Clelie_, 321. _Cleomades_, 93. extract from, 94. _Cleopatre_, drama, 219, 221, 224, 226. _Cleopatre_, novel, 307, 321. _Cleveland_, 422. _Cliges_, 38. _Clitandre_, 295, 297. Codes and Legal Treatises, 144. Colle, Charles (1709-1783), poet, dramatist, and memoir-writer, 404. Collerye, Roger de (16th cent.), 170, 171. Colletet, G. (1598-1659), poet, 278. Collin d'Harleville, J. F. (1755-1806), comic poet and dramatist, 414. _Combat des Trente_, 75. _Comedie des Academistes_, 405. _Comedie des Chansons_, 308. _Comedie des Comediens_, 308. _Comedie des Comedies_, 308. _Comedie des Proverbes_, 308. Comedie Italienne, 406. Comedie Larmoyante, 411. Comines, Philippe de (_c._ 1447-1511), memoir-writer, 159, 160. Commedia dell' arte, 308. Commedia erudita, 308. _Compere Mathieu_, 428. Comte, A. (1796-1851), philosopher, 568. _Comtesse de Ponthieu_, 147. _Condamnation de Banquet_, 121, 219. Conde, B. and J. de (14th cent.), trouveres, 78. Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de (1715-1780), philosopher, 495. Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat (1743-1794), economist and philosopher, 491. _Confession d'un Enfant du Siecle_, 541. _Confession du Vicaire Savoyard_, 487. _Confessions_, 425, 485, 486, 487, 488. Confrerie de la Passion (licensed, 1402), 122. _Conjuration de Fiesque_, 334, 340. _Conjuration des Espagnols contre Venise_, 335. _Conquete de Constantinople_, 128, 129, 131. _Conspiration de Walstein_, 334. Constant, Benjamin (1767-1830), politician and novelist, 432, 435, 487. _Consuelo_, 534. _Contes Drolatiques_, 533, 537. _Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie_, 540. _Contes d'Eutrapel_, 193. _Contes et Joyeux Devis_, 192, 193. _Contes_ of La Fontaine, 281, 282, 283, 284. _Contrat Social_, 486, 487. _Contreditz du Songecreux_, 170. _Contre-un_, 249. _Conversation du Pere Canaye_, 361. Coppee, F. (b. 1842), poet, 551. Coq-a-l'Ane, 174, 177, 198. Coquillart, Guillaume (?1421-1510), poet, 162, 164. Coran, Ch. (b. 1814), poet, 550. _Corinne_, 432, 433. Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684), poet and dramatist, 295-301. Corneille, Thomas (1625-1706), dramatist, 306, 316. Corrozet, Gilles (1510-1568), poet and fabulist, 178. Cottin, Madame (1773-1807), novelist, 434, 435. Coucy, Chatelain de (13th cent.), poet, 68. ---- Mathieu de (15th cent.), chronicler, 135. Courier, Paul Louis (1772-1825), translator and political pamphleteer, 469, 510. _Couronnement Loys_, 19. Cousin, Victor (1792-1868), philosopher, 516.