nt. meaning of the word, 375 note.

Pibrac, Guy de Faur de (1529-1584), poet, 210.

Pierre de Saint Cloud (13th cent.), trouvere, 53.

Pigault Lebrun (1753-1835), novelist and dramatist, 434.

Piron, J. (1690-1773), poet and dramatist, 404, 405, 410, 411.

Pisan, Christine de (1363-1420), poetess, 86, 102, 104, 105, 135, 144.

Pithou, P. (1539-1596), lawyer and satirist, 260, 262.

Pixerecourt, R. C. G. de (1773-1844), dramatist, 552.

_Plaideurs_, 303.

Planche, G. (1808-1857), critic, 565.

Planh, 31.

PLEIADE, the, 175, 176, 196, 221, 236, 245, 254, 265, 272, 275,
277, 278, 292, 304, 371, 392.

Political economists, 489.

'Politiques,' 260, 262.

Polo, Marco (1256-1323), Venetian traveller, 145.

Polonius, Jean (Labenski) (1790-1855), poet, 543.

_Polyeucte_, 297, 300.

Pompignan, le Franc de (1709-1784), poet, 399, 408.

Ponsard, F. (1824-1867), dramatist, 553.

Pontalais, Jean du (15th cent.), poet, 170.

Pontchartrain, P. Phelypeaux de (1566-1621), memoir-writer, 336.

Pontis, L. de (b. 1583), memoir-writer, 337.

Port Royal, 374.

Pradon, N. (1632-1698), dramatist, 307.

_Precieuses Ridicules_, 309, 310, 313, 315, 320.

Presles, Raoul de (1314-1383), translator, 143, 144.

Prevost, Abbe (1697-1763), novelist, 421, 423, 452.

_Prise d'Alexandrie_, 102.

_Prise d'Orange_, 19.

'Prophets' (the) of Christ, 110.

_Propos Rustiques_, 193.

Prose, general use of, 140.

PROVENCAL LITERATURE, 26-33.
range and characteristics of, 27, 63.
periods of, 28;
First, 28,
Second, 29,
Third, 31.

Provencal to French, relation of, 32.

_Provinciales_, 357, 358, 374.

Prudhomme, Sully, poet, 551.

_Psyche_ (romance), 313.

_Psyche_ (opera), 298.

_Pucelle_, Chapelain's, 279.

---- Voltaire's, 399.

_Pulcherie_, 298.

_Pyrame et Thisbe_, 293.

Pyramus, Denis, 96.

_Quatre Fils Aymon_, 21.

Quesnay, Francois (1694-1774), surgeon and economist, 489.

Quesnes de Bethune (d. 1224), trouvere, 67, 68.

_Quest of the Saint Graal_, 36, 39, 92.

Quinault (1638-1688), dramatist, 307, 315.

Quinet, E. (1803-1875), historian, etc., 576.

_Quinze Joyes du Mariage_, 148.

Rabelais, Francois (1495-1553), 184-190, 235, 239, 241.
his followers, 153, 154, 155.

Rabutin, Francois de (d. 1852), memoir-writer, 257.

Rabutin, R. de Bussy (1618-1693), memoir-writer, 345.

Racan, Marquis de (1589-1670), poet, 276.

Racine, Jean (1639-1699), dramatist, 301-306.