ssibility--to make the young turn to the young, and leave Madame de
Francheville no solace for her sin. But for this also Pigault would have
lacked audacity.

[433] For the story "species" of _Gil Blas_ was not new, was of foreign
origin, and was open to some objection; while the other two books just
named derived their attraction, in the one case to a very small extent,
in the other to hardly any at all, from the story itself.

[434] Not that Jacob and Marianne are unnatural--quite the contrary--but
that their situations are conventionalised.

[435] _Corps d'Extraits de Romans de Chevalerie._ 4 vols. Paris, 1782.

[436] The link between the two suggested at p. 458, _note_, is as
follows. That Victor Hugo should, as he does in the Preface to _Han
d'Islande_ and elsewhere, sneer at Pigault, is not very wonderful: for,
besides the difference between _canaille_ and _caballeria_, the author
of _M. Botte_ was the most popular novelist of Hugo's youth. But why he
has, in Part IV. Book VII. of _Les Miserables_ selected Restif as
"undermining the masses in the most unwholesome way of all" is not
nearly so clear, especially as he opposes this way to the
"wholesomeness" of, among others--Diderot!

APPENDICES

CHRONOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF FRENCH FICTION
NOTICED IN THIS VOLUME

11TH CENTURY

_Vie de Saint Alexis_ (probably).

_Roland_ and one or two other _Chansons_ (possibly).

12TH CENTURY

Most of the older _Chansons_.

_Arthurian Legend_ (in some of its forms).

_Roman de Troie_, _Romans d'Alexandre_ (older forms).

13TH CENTURY

Rest of the more genuine _Chansons_.

Rest of ditto Arthuriad and "Matter of Rome."

_Romans d'Aventures_ (many).

Early Fabliaux (probably).

_Roman de la Rose_ and _Roman de Renart_ (older parts).

Prose Stories (_Aucassin et Nicolette_), etc.

14TH CENTURY

Rehandlings, and younger examples, of all kinds above mentioned.

15TH CENTURY

Ditto, but only latest forms of all but Prose Stories, and many of the
others rendered into prose.

_Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles._ First _edition_, 1480, but written much
earlier.

_Petit Jehan de Saintre_, about 1459, or earlier.

_Jehan de Paris._ Uncertain, but before 1500.

16TH CENTURY

Rabelais. First Book of _Pantagruel_ Second of the whole, 1533;
_Gargantua_, 1535; rest of _Pantagruel_ at intervals, to the
(posthumous) Fifth Book in 1564.

Marguerite de Navarre. _Heptameron._