La Noue. Agrippa d'Aubigne.
Marguerite de Valois. Vieilleville. Palma-Cayet. Pierre
de l'Estoile. D'Ossat. Sully. Jeannin. Minor Memoir-writers.
General Historians.

VIII. THE SATYRE MENIPPEE. REGNIER 259

Satyre Menippee. Regnier.

INTERCHAPTER II. SUMMARY OF RENAISSANCE LITERATURE 270

BOOK III.

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

CHAP. I. POETS 274

Malherbe. The School of Malherbe. Vers de Societe.
Voiture. Epic School. Chapelain. Bacchanalian School.
Saint Amant. La Fontaine. Boileau. Minor Poets of the
Seventeenth Century.

II. DRAMATISTS 290

Montchrestien. Hardy. Minor predecessors of Corneille.
Rotrou. Corneille. Racine. Minor Tragedians. Development
of Comedy. Moliere. Contemporaries of
Moliere. The School of Moliere. Regnard. Characteristics
of Molieresque Comedy.

III. NOVELISTS 319

D'Urfe. The Heroic Romances. Scarron. Cyrano de
Bergerac. Furetiere. Madame de la Fayette. Fairy
Tales. Perrault.

IV. HISTORIANS, MEMOIR-WRITERS, LETTER-WRITERS 332

General Historians. Mezeray. Historical Essayists.
St. Real. Memoir-writers. Rohan. Bassompierre.
Madame de Motteville. Cardinal de Retz. Mademoiselle.
La Rochefoucauld. Saint Simon. Madame de Sevigne.
Tallemant des Reaux. Historical Antiquaries. Du Cange.

V. ESSAYISTS, MINOR MORALISTS, CRITICS 354

Balzac. Pascal. La Rochefoucauld. La Bruyere.

VI. PHILOSOPHERS 368

Descartes. Port Royal. Bayle. Malebranche.

VII. THEOLOGIANS AND PREACHERS 379

St. Francois de Sales. Bossuet. Fenelon. Massillon.
Bourdaloue. Minor Preachers.

INTERCHAPTER III. SUMMARY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE 391

BOOK IV.

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

CHAP. I. POETS 395

Literary Degeneracy of the Eighteenth Century, especially
manifest in Poetry. J. B. Rousseau. Voltaire. Descriptive
Poets. Delille. Lebrun. Parny. Chenier. Minor
Poets. Light Verse. Piron. Desaugiers.

CHAP. II. DRAMATISTS 406

Divisions of Drama. La Motte. Crebillon the Elder.
Voltaire and his followers. Lesage. Comedie Larmoyante.
La Chaussee. Diderot. Marivaux. Beaumarchais. Characteristics
of Eightee