524.

_Les Quatre Vents de l'Esprit_, 525.

Lespinasse, Mademoiselle de (1732-1776), letter-writer, 446.

_Les Saisnes_, 21.

L'Estoile, Pierre de (16th cent.), memoir-writer, 255.

_Lettres de Quelques Juifs_, 460.

_Lettres du Sepulcre_, 144.

_Lettres Persanes_, 475, 476.

Le Vavasseur, L. G. (b. 1819), poet and critic, 550.

_L'Homme-Machine_, 493.

_L'Homme qui Rit_, 524.

L'Hospital, Michel de (1505-1573), 249.

_Liber de Creaturis_, 79.

Lingua romana rustica, 2, 140.

L'Isle, C. J. Rouget de (1760-1836), poet, 405.

Literature proper, beginning of, 7.

Littre, E. (1801-1881), positivist and philologist, 567, 568.

_Livre des Cent Ballades_, 106.

_Livre des faits du Marechal de Bouciqualt_, 135.

_Livres de raison_, 145.

Loret, J. (d. 1665), poet and gazetteer, 289.

Lorris, William of (13th cent.), trouvere, 82, 87.

_Lutrin_, 285, 286.

Lyrics, origins of, 62.

Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de (1709-1785), historian and publicist, 440.

_Macaire_, 21.

_Macette_, 268.

Machault, Guillaume de (_c._ 1284-1377), poet, 102-104.
Chanson Balladee from, 107.

Mademoiselle, La Grande, _see_ Montpensier.

Magny, Olivier de (d. 1560), poet, 207, 208.

_Mahomet_, 408.

Maillard, Olivier (1440-1502), preacher, 166.

Maimbourg, L. (1610-1688), historian, 333.

Maintenon, Madame de (1635-1719), letter-writer, 323.

Mairet, Jean (1604-1686), dramatist, 293.

Maistre, Joseph Marie de (1753-1821), philosopher and political
writer, 496.

Maistre, Xavier de (1763-1852), novelist, 434.

_Malade Imaginaire_, 313, 315.

Malebranche, Nicolas (1638-1715), philosopher, 377.

Malfilatre, J. C. L. de Clinchamp, (1733-1767), poet, 401.

Malherbe, Francois de (1555-1628), poet, 274-276.
school of, 276.

_Manekine_, 97.

_Manon Lescaut_, 416, 422.

_Mantel Mautaillie_, 51.

Map, Walter (12th cent.), prose romancer, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 127.

Maquet, A. (1813-1888) dramatist and novelist, 548.

Marguerite d'Angouleme, Queen of Navarre (1422-1549), poetess and
tale-teller, 190, 191.

Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre and France (1553-1615),
memoir-writer, 254.

_Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses_, 178, 192.

_Mariage de Figaro_, 413.

_Mariamne_, 292, 293.

_Marianne_, 420, 423.

Marie de France (13th cent.), poetess, 55, 60, 61, 73.

Marigny, J. Carpentier de (17th cent.), poet, 278.

Marillac, M. de (1573-1632), memoir-writer, 336.

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