Jean Joseph (1719-1757), poet, 404.

Vair, Guillaume du (1556-1621), lawyer and moralist, 248, 356.

_Vair Palefroi_, 51.

_Valerie_, 434.

Valmore, Marceline Desbordes (1787-1859), poetess, 543.

_Varietes Historiques et Litteraires_, 351.

Varillas, A. (1624-1696), historian, 333.

Vauban, Sebastien le Prestre de (1633-1731), engineer and political
economist, 489.

Vaudeville, 415.

Vaugelas, C. F. de (1585-1650), grammarian, 356, 392, 506.

Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (1536-1606), poet, 208, 210, 218, 265.

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de (1715-1747), essayist and
moralist, 455-457.

_Venceslas_, 294.

_Vengeance de Raguidel_, 95.

_Venus, de, la Deesse d'Amors_, 87.

_Veritable Saint Genest_, 294.

Vers de Societe, 277, 404.

Vers, Provencal, 30.

Verse Chronicles, 75.

Vertot, Abbe (1655-1735), historian, 333-334.

_Ver-Vert_, 369, 412.

Veuillot, L. (1813-1880), journalist, 570.

Viaud, Theophile de (1590-1626), poet and dramatist, 277, 293.

Vieilleville, Marechal de (1509-1571), memoir-writer, 254.

Vigny, Alfred de (1799-1864), poet and novelist, 544.

_Vilain, le, qui conquist Paradis par Plaist_, 51.

_Vilain Mire_, 51.

Villanelle, 101.

Villanesques, 210.

Villars, Boyvin du (16th cent.), memoir-writer, 257.

Villars, L. H., Duke de (1653-1734), memoir-writer, 344.

Villedieu, Madame de (1631-1683), novelist, 17, 322.

Villehardouin, Geoffroi de (_c._ 1160-1213), 128-130.
examples from, 136.

Villemain, A. (1790-1870), critic, 564.

Villon, Francois (1431-1485), poet, 156-158.

Vinet, A. (1797-1847), critic, 565.

Viollet le-Duc, E. E. (1814-1879), architectural writer, 565.

_Virgins, Ten_, 7, 27, 111.

_Voir Dit_, 102.

Voiture, V. (1598-1648), poet and letter-writer, 277, 356.

Volney, C. F. de Chasseboeuf, Comte de (1757-1820), _philosophe_ and
traveller, 441, 492.

Voltaire, F. Arouet de (1694-1778),
life and poems, 398, 399.
plays, 407, 408.
tales, 423, 424.
histories, 439.
criticism, 461.
philosophy, 478, 479.
scientific work, 501.

_Voyages a la Lune et au Soleil_, 324.

_Voyage autour de ma Chambre_, 434.

_Voyage de Charlemagne a Constantinople_, 48.

_Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis_, 427.

Wace (_c._ 1120-1174), trouvere, 76.

William of Lorris, _see_ Lorris.

William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, chronicle of, 76.

William IX., Count of Poictiers (1020-1090), troubadour, 28, 30.

William of Tudela (