Grandes Chroniques de
France. Villehardouin. Minor Chroniclers between Villehardouin
and Joinville. Joinville. Froissart. Fifteenth-Century
Chroniclers.

XII. MISCELLANEOUS PROSE 140

General use of Prose. Prose Sermons. St. Bernard.
Maurice de Sully. Later Preachers. Gerson. Moral and
Devotional Treatises. Translators. Political and Polemical
Works. Codes and Legal Treatises. Miscellanies
and Didactic Works. Fiction. Antoine de la Salle.

INTERCHAPTER I. SUMMARY OF MEDIAEVAL LITERATURE 151

BOOK II.

THE RENAISSANCE.

CHAP. I. VILLON, COMINES, AND THE LATER FIFTEENTH CENTURY 155

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Characteristics
of Fifteenth-century Literature. Villon. Comines. Coquillart.
Baude. Martial d'Auvergne. The Rhetoriqueurs.
Chansons du xv'eme Siecle. Preachers.

II. MAROT AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 168

Hybrid School of Poetry. Jean le Maire. Jehan du
Pontalais. Roger de Collerye. Minor Predecessors of Marot.
Clement Marot. The School of Marot. Mellin de Saint-Gelais.
Miscellaneous Verse. Anciennes Poesies Francaises.

III. RABELAIS AND HIS FOLLOWERS 183

Fiction at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Rabelais.
Bonaventure des Periers. The Heptameron. Noel du
Fail. G. Bouchet. Cholieres. Apologie pour Herodote.
Moyen de Parvenir.

IV. THE PLEIADE 196

Character and Effects of the Pleiade Movement. Ronsard.
The Defense et Illustration de la Langue Francaise. Du
Bellay. Belleau. Baif. Daurat, Jodelle, Pontus de
Tyard. Magny. Tahureau. Minor Ronsardists. Du
Bartas. D'Aubigne. Desportes. Bertaut.

V. THE THEATRE FROM GRINGORE TO GARNIER 216

Gringore. The last Age of the Mediaeval Theatre. Beginnings
of the Classical Drama. Jodelle. Minor Pleiade
Dramatists. Garnier. Defects of the Pleiade Tragedy.
Pleiade Comedy. Larivey.

VI. CALVIN AND AMYOT 228

Prose Writers of the Renaissance. Calvin. Minor Reformers
and Controversialists. Preachers of the League.
Amyot. Minor Translators. Dolet. Fauchet. Pasquier.
Henri Estienne. Herberay. Palissy. Pare. Olivier de Serres.

VII. MONTAIGNE AND BRANTOME 241

Disenchantment of the late Renaissance. Montaigne.
Charron. Du Vair. Bodin and other Political Writers.
Brantome. Montluc.