About, Edmond (1828-1885), novelist and journalist,559.Academic influences,486,506-508.criticism,564.Académie Française,334,353,367,504-508.Actors, societies of,122.Adalbert, St.,3.Adam, mystery of,111.Adam de la Halle (13th cent.), trouvère and dramatist,69,70.Adenès le Roi (13th cent.), trouvère,23note1,93,95.Adolescence Clémentine,174.Adolphe,435.Aguesseau, H.F. d' (1668-1751), orator,457,480.Aïssé, Mlle. (1693-1733), letter-writer,445.Alba,31.Albigensian War, Chronicle of,30.Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (1717-1785), encyclopædist,419,462,481,483,499.Alexander of Bernay (12th cent.), trouvère,43.Alexandrines,75,76,213,300.Aliscans,19,22.Alixandre, Chanson d',43.Allainval, Léonor J. C. Soulas d' (1700-1753), dramatist,412.Allegory,81.Almanach de nos Grands Hommes,466.Alzire,408.Amphitryon,312.Amadas et Idoine,97.Amadis of Gaul,237,319,320.Amants Magnifiques,312.Amerval, Eloy d' (15th cent.), poet,172.Amis et Amiles,12,21,147.story of,16.passage from,18.Amyot, Jacques (1513-1594), translator,232,234,246,270.Ancien Théâtre Français,117seqq.Anciennes Poésies Françaises,181,182.Andrieux, François G. J. S. (1759-1833), dramatist and poet,403,414.Andromaque,302.Andromède,298.Antioche, Chanson d',20,39,48,99.Antiquités de Rome,203.Antony,530.Apologie pour Hérodote,166,194.Argenson, René Louis de Voyer, Marquis d' (1694-1757), memoir-writer,442.Arnauld, A. (1612-1694), Port Royalist,338,374.Arnault, A. V. (1766-1834), poet and fabulist,403.Arthur,34.tale of, its origins,34,151.Arthurian Romances,34-42,46note.Arthurian cycle, French order of,35,97.Romances, spirit and literary value of,38.comedy of,48.social characteristics of,46.Arvers, Félix (1806-1851), poet,548.Asseneth,147.Assises de Jérusalem,144.Assonance,11,27,63.Astrée,319.Athalie,302,303,306.Auberi of Besançon (12th cent.), poet,28.Aubignac, François Hédelin, Abbé d' (1604-1676), dramatist, novelist, and critic,293,322.Aubigné, Agrippa d' (1550-1630), poet and historian,212,213,253,254.Aucassin et Nicolette,66,149.extract from,150.Audefroy le Bastard (12th cent.), trouvère,63.Augier, E. (b. 1822), dramatist,553.Aulnoy, Marie C., Comtesse d' (d. 1720), tale-teller,328.Autran, Joseph (1813-1877), poet and dramatist,555.Baïf, Jean Antoine de (1532-1592), poet,196,198,205,206,210,226.---- Lazare de (?-1547) translator,219.Balada,31.Ballade,101.Ballade des Dames du Temps jadis,158.Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850), novelist,532,535,537,542.Balzac, Jean Guez de (1594-1655), essayist and letter-writer,355,356.Banville, Th. de (b. 1820), poet,549.Barbey d'Aurévilly, J. (b. 1808), miscellaneous writer,557.Barbier, Auguste (1805-1882), poet,545.Barbier de Séville,413.Barlaam and Josaphat,81.Baron (1643-1729), comic writer and actor,317.Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste du (1544-1590), poet,211,212.Barthélemy, Louis, Abbé (1750-1812), scholar,427.Bassompierre, François, Maréchal de, memoir-writer,337.Bastard de Bouillon,20,99.Baude, Henri (1430-1495), poet,163.Baudelaire, C. (1821-1866), poet and critic,549,550.Baudouin de Sebourc,20,99.Bayle, P. (1647-1706), philosopher and encyclopædist,375.Beaumarchais, Caron de (1731-1799), dramatist,413.Bele Erembors,63.Bélisaire,458.Bellay, Guillaume (1491-1543) and Martin (?-1559) du, memoir-writers,256.Bellay, Joachim du (1524-1560), poet,202,204,207,210,219,270.Belleau, Rémy (1528-1577), poet,204,226.Belloy, Burette de (1727-1775), dramatist,408.Benedictine students,503.Benoist de Sainte More (1154-1189), trouvère and chronicler,44,45,79.Benserade, Isaac de (1612-1691), poet,278.Béranger, Pierre Jean de (1780-1857), poet,511,512.Bergerac, Cyrano de (1620-1655), dramatist and novelist,308,324.Bergier, Nicolas Sylvestre (1718-1790), theologian,460.Berlioz, H. (1803-1869), miscellaneous writer,566.Bernard, C. de (1805-1850), novelist,557.Béroalde de Verville (1558-1612), tale-teller,194.Bersuire, Pierre (1290-1352), translator,143.Bertaut, Jean (1552-1611), poet,338.Berte aux grans Piés,21,93.Bertin, Antoine (1752-1790), poet,401.Bertrand, L. (1807-1841), poet,548.Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of (1660-1734), memoir-writer,344.Bésenval, Pierre Victor, Baron de (1722-1791), memoir-writer,442.Bestiaries,79,145.Beyle, Henri (1783-1842), novelist and critic,517.Beza, Théodore (1519-1605), dramatist and translator,218,231.Bible,78.Bibliothèque des Romans,502.Billaut, A. (1600-1662) poet,280.Bichat, M. F. X. (1771-1802), scientific writer,501.Blanc, L. (1813-1882), historian,577.Blancandin et l'Orguilleuse d'Amour,96.Blandin de Cornoalha,30.Blason,210.Blasphémateurs,121.Blonde d'Oxford,98.Blot (1610-1655) poet,278.Bodel, Jean (b. 1269), trouvère,42,91,111.Bodin, Jean (1530-1596), lawyer,248.Boethius, Provençal poem on,28,29.Boëtie, Étienne de la (1530-1563), poet and political writer,209,242,243,249.Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711), poet and critic,284-287.Boisrobert, F. Le Metel de (1592-1662), poet and dramatist,278.Bonald, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de (1754-1840), political writer,498,515.Bordigné, Charles de (16th cent.), poet,171.Borel, P. (1809-1859), poet and novelist,547.Bornier, H. de (b. 1825), dramatist,556.Borron, Robert and Hélie de (12th and 13th cent.),35,36.Bossuet, Jacques Benigne (1627-1704), theologian and preacher,380-383.Bouchardy, Joseph (1810-1870), dramatist,553.Bouchet, Guillaume (d. 1607), tale-teller,194.Bouchet, Jehan (1476-1555), historian and poet,171,172,194.Bouciqualt, Jean le Maigre (d. 1421), memoir-writer,105.Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811), traveller,502.Bouilhet, L. (1821-1872), poet,550.Boulainvilliers, Henri de (1658-1722), historian and political writer,438.Bourdaloue, Louis (1632-1704), theologian,387.Bourgeois Gentilhomme,312.Boursault, Edme (1638-1708), dramatist,315.Bradamante,224.Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Abbé de (1540-1614), memoir-writer,249-252.Brébeuf, Guillaume de (1618-1661), poet,287.Breu-doble,31.Brienne, Comte de (17th cent.), memoir-writer,339.Brizeux, Auguste (1803-1858), poet,546.Brodeau, Victor (1470-1540), poet,177.Brosses, Ch. de (1709-1777), miscellanist,503.Brunetière, F., critic,565.Brueys, D. A. de (1640-1725), dramatist,317.Brun de la Montaigne,26,92.Brunetto Latini (1220-1294), scholar,145,152.Bueves de Commarchis,93.Buffon, George Lewis Leclerc, Count de (1707-1788), naturalist,499.Bug Jargal,521.Buttet, Claude (16th cent.), poet,209.Cabanis, J. P. G. (1757-1808), scientific writer,501.Calmet, Dom Augustin (1672-1757), biblical historian,440.Calvin, Jean (1509-1564), theologian,230,231.Campistron (1656-1737), dramatist,307,316.Candide,423.Canso,30.Cantilenae,7,62.Caractèresof La Bruyère,365.Carloix, Vincent (16th cent.), memoir-writer,254.Carte de Tendre,321.Cassel, glossary of,3.Castelnau, Michel de (1500-1592), memoir-writer,257.Castoiement d'un Père à son Fils,81.Caylus, Madame de (1673-1729), memoir-writer,344.Cazotte, Jacques (1720-1792), novelist,426.Cénacle, the,530,540.Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles,148,283.Chamfort, N. (1741-1794), moralist and critic,465,466.Champcenetz, (1759-1794), journalist, &c.,464,465.Champier, Symphorien (1472-1535), poet,171.Chanson,66,511,512.Chanson d'Alixandre,42,43,46.Chanson d'Amour,66.Chanson de Roland, argument of,13.passage from,14.Chanson des Albigeois,30,31.Chansonnettes,66.Chansons de Gestes,2,6,7,9-24,37,43,47,50,75,76,99.Chanson des Rues et des Bois,524.Chansons du XVièmeSiècle,166.Chapelain, Jean (1595-1674), poet,279,285,301,349.Chapelle, C. E. L. (1626-1686), poet,278.Chardry (13th cent.), trouvère,81.Charlemagne à Constantinople, Voyage de,21.Charlemagne inChansons,13,14,19,22.Charleval, C. J. L. Faucon de Risseigneur de (1612-1693), poet,278.Charroi de Nimes, le,19.Charron, Pierre (1541-1603), moralist and theologian,247,248.Chartier, Alain (1390-1458), poet,102,105,144,165,169,270.ballade from,108.extract fromCurial,150.Chasles, P. L. (1798-1873), critic,565.Chassignet, J. B. (1578-1620), poet,276.Chastellain, Georges (1403-1475), chronicler,134,148,164.Chateaubriand, François Auguste de (1768-1848), novelist and miscellaneous writer,429,430.Chatillon, A. de (1810-1884), poet,548.Chaulieu, Abbé de (1639-1720), poet,288.Chaussée, Nivelle de la (1692-1754), dramatic poet,411,415.Chef d'œuvre Inconnu,533.Chênedollé, C. de (1769-1833), poet,403,468.Chénier, André Marie de (1762-1794), poet,402,403.Chénier, Marie Joseph (1764-1811), poet, critic, and journalist,401,403,519.Cherbuliez, V. (b. 1832), novelist,562.Chétifs,20.Cheval de Fust,93.Chevalerie Ogier de Danemarche, la,20.Chevalier à la Charrette, extract from,40,41.Chevalier as Deux Espées,97.Chevalier au Cygne,20.Chevalier au Lyon,37,38.Chivalry, spirit of,29,38.Cholières, Sieur de (16th cent.),194.Chrestien de Troyes (d. c. 1195), trouvère,37,38,39,40.Chrestien, Florent (1541-1596), translator and political writer,260.Christ, Passion du,112.Chronique de du Guesclin,75.Chronique de Messire Jacque de Lalaing,148.Chronique des Quatre Premiers Valois,131.Chronique de Rains,130.Chronique du Règne de Charles IX,537.Chronique scandaleuseof Jean de Troyes,136.Chroniquesof Froissart,132.Chroniques Grandes et Inestimables, du Grant et Énorme Géant Gargantua,185.Chroniquesof Jean Lebel,131,132,133.Chute d'un Ange,514.Cinna,207.Cinq Mars,544.Clari, Robert de (12th cent.), chronicler,130.Claude, Jean (1619-1687), theologian,379.Claveret (17th cent.), dramatist,293.Clélie,321.Cléomadès,93.extract from,94.Cléopâtre, drama,219,221,224,226.Cléopâtre, novel,307,321.Clèveland,422.Cligès,38.Clitandre,295,297.Codes and Legal Treatises,144.Collé, Charles (1709-1783), poet, dramatist, and memoir-writer,404.Collérye, Roger de (16th cent.),170,171.Colletet, G. (1598-1659), poet,278.Collin d'Harleville, J. F. (1755-1806), comic poet and dramatist,414.Combat des Trente,75.Comédie des Académistes,405.Comédie des Chansons,308.Comédie des Comédiens,308.Comédie des Comédies,308.Comédie des Proverbes,308.Comédie Italienne,406.Comédie Larmoyante,411.Comines, Philippe de (c.1447-1511), memoir-writer,159,160.Commedia dell' arte,308.Commedia erudita,308.Compère Mathieu,428.Comte, A. (1796-1851), philosopher,568.Comtesse de Ponthieu,147.Condamnation de Banquet,121,219.Condé, B. and J. de (14th cent.), trouvères,78.Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715-1780), philosopher,495.Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat (1743-1794), economist and philosopher,491.Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle,541.Confession du Vicaire Savoyard,487.Confessions,425,485,486,487,488.Confrérie de la Passion (licensed, 1402),