, 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), memo