_Encyclopaedia
Britannica_. For this repetition I may borrow from a better writer than
myself the excuse that a man cannot say exactly the same thing in two
different sets of words so as to please himself, or perhaps others.

INDEX.

About, Edmond (1828-1885), novelist and journalist, 559.

Academic influences, 486, 506-508.
criticism, 564.

Academie Francaise, 334, 353, 367, 504-508.

Actors, societies of, 122.

Adalbert, St., 3.

_Adam, mystery of_, 111.

Adam de la Halle (13th cent.), trouvere and dramatist, 69, 70.

Adenes le Roi (13th cent.), trouvere, 23 note 1, 93, 95.

_Adolescence Clementine_, 174.

_Adolphe_, 435.

Aguesseau, H.F. d' (1668-1751), orator, 457, 480.

Aisse, Mlle. (1693-1733), letter-writer, 445.

Alba, 31.

_Albigensian War, Chronicle of_, 30.

Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (1717-1785), encyclopaedist, 419, 462, 481,
483, 499.

Alexander of Bernay (12th cent.), trouvere, 43.

Alexandrines, 75, 76, 213, 300.

_Aliscans_, 19, 22.

_Alixandre, Chanson d'_, 43.

Allainval, Leonor J. C. Soulas d' (1700-1753), dramatist, 412.

Allegory, 81.

_Almanach de nos Grands Hommes_, 466.

_Alzire_, 408.

_Amphitryon_, 312.

_Amadas et Idoine_, 97.

_Amadis of Gaul_, 237, 319, 320.

_Amants Magnifiques_, 312.

Amerval, Eloy d' (15th cent.), poet, 172.

_Amis et Amiles_, 12, 21, 147.
story of, 16.
passage from, 18.

Amyot, Jacques (1513-1594), translator, 232, 234, 246, 270.

_Ancien Theatre Francais_, 117 seqq.

_Anciennes Poesies Francaises_, 181, 182.

Andrieux, Francois G. J. S. (1759-1833), dramatist and poet, 403, 414.

_Andromaque_, 302.

_Andromede_, 298.

_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)