about 1380, died in the
Netherlands in 1471.)

Of Eternal Life and of Striving for It.

(From "The Imitation of Christ")

FRANCE

Twelfth Century--1885

GEOFFREY DE VILLE-HARDOUIN--(Born between 1150 and 1165; died in 1212.)

The Sack of Constantinople.

(From "The Chronicles." Translated by Eric Arthur Bell)

JEAN DE JOINVILLE--(Born in 1224, died in 1317.)

Greek Fire in Battle.

(From "The Memoirs of Louis IX, King of France." Translated by Thomas
Johnes)

"AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE."

(A French romance of the 12th Century, the author's name unknown)

JEAN FROISSART--(Born in 1337, died in 1410.)

The Battle of Crecy (1346).

(From the "Chronicles." Translated by Thomas Johnes)

PHILIPPE DE COMINES--(Born in France about 1445, died in 1511.)

Of the Character of Louis XI

(From the "Memoirs." Translated by Andrew R. Scoble)

MARGUERITE D'ANGOULEME--(Born in 1492, died in 1549.)

Of Husbands Who Are Unfaithful.

(From the "Heptameron")

FRANCOIS RABELAIS--(Born in 1495, died in 1553.)

I Gargantua in His Childhood.

(From "The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua." Translated by
Urquhart and Motteux)

II Gargantua's Education.

(From "The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua." Translated by
Urquhart and Motteux)

III Of the Founding of an Ideal Abbey.

(From "The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua." Translated by
Urquhart and Motteux)

JOHN CALVIN--(Born in 1509, died in 1564.)

Of Freedom for the Will.

(From the "Institutes")

JOACHIM DU BELLAY--(Born about 1524, died in 1560.)

Why Old French Was Not as Rich as Greek and Latin.

(From the "Defense et Illustration de la Langue Francoise."
Translated by Eric Arthur Bell)

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE--(Born in 1533, died in 1592.)

I A Word to His Readers.

(From the preface to the "Essays." Translated by John Florio)

II Of Society and Solitude.

(From the essay entitled "Of Three Commerces." The Cotton translation,
revised by W. C. Hazlitt)

III Of His Own Library.

(From the essay entitled "Of Three Commerces." The Cotton translation,
revised by W. C. Hazlitt)

IV That the Soul Discharges Her Passions upon False Objects Where
True Ones Are Wanting.

(From the essay with that title. The Cotton translation)

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