12, 75-81, 153.

=LA FONTAINE= (lae foN-t[=a]n'), Jean de (1621-1695), 12, 81-92.

Lamartine (lae-mar-t[=e]n'), Alphonse Marie Louis de (1780-1869), 14, 206, 289.

_Langue d'oc_, 4.

_Langue d'oil_, 4.

Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881), 25.

=LA ROCHEFOUCAULD= (lae r[=o]sh-foo-k[=o]'), Francois, Duc de (1613-1680),
12, 48, 66-75, 131, 147, 148.

Longfellow, Henry W., 50.

Louis IX. (1215-1270) (St. Louis), 6, 7.

Louis XI. (1423-1483), 7.

Louis XIII. (1601-1643), 10, 95.

Louis XIV. (1638-1715) (Quatorze), 10, 12, 113, 135, 136, 169, 172, 176,
181, 184, 189, 190, 198, 199, 200, 207, 208, 213, 217-219, 223, 255.

Louis XV. (1710-1774), 199, 214, 254.

Louvois (loo-vwae'), Marquis de, 142.

Lowell, James Russell, 291.

Lucan, 151, 153, 240.

Lucretius, 94, 166.

Luther, Martin, 7, 40.

Maintenon (m[)a]N-teh-noN'), Madame de (1635-1719), 172, 181, 210, 211.

Malherbe (mael-[^e]rb'), Francois (1555-1628), 9, 10, 14.

Martin (mar-t[)a]N'), Henri (1810- ), 183.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 8, 198.

=MASSILLON= (maes-se-yoN'), Jean Baptiste (1663-1742), 3, 12, 148, 182,
185, 188, 197-205.

M'Crie, Thomas, 119.

Michael (the Archangel), 205.

Milton, John, 92, 182, 206, 247.

=MOLIERE= (mo-le-er') (real name, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673), 12,
16, 83, 92-114, 127, 154, 165, 167, 169, 240.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 151.

=MONTAIGNE= (mon-t[=a]n'), Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592), 2, 7, 8, 44-65,
67, 75, 131, 230, 234, 257, 268.

Montespan (moN-t[)e]ss-paeN'), Madame de (1641-1707), 138, 139, 140.

=MONTESQUIEU=, de (moN-t[)e]s-k[^e]-uh'), Charles de Secondat (1689-1755),
13, 218, 225-237.

Morley, Henry, 249.

Morley, John, 249, 251, 285.

Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718), 30.

Musset (mue-s[=a]') (1810-1857), Alfred de, 289.

Napoleon Bonaparte, 13, 166.

Nathan (the prophet), 198.

Newton, Sir Isaac, 115.

Nicole (ne-k[)o]l'), Pierre (1625-1695), 3, 143, 147, 168.

"Obscurantism" (disposition, in the sphere of the intellect, to love
darkness rather than light), 252.

Pan-tag'-ru-el, 29, 40, 41, 42.

Panurge (pae-nuerzh'), 40, 41, 42.

=PASCAL=, Blaise (1623-1662), 3, 12, 48, 62, 65, 80, 115-133, 193.

Pascal, Jacqueline, 116.

Pelisson (p[)e]l-[=e]-soN'), 149.

Petrarch, Francesco, 20.

Phaedrus, 85.

Plato, 50, 51, 59.

Pleiades (pl[=e]'ya-d[=e]z), 8, 10, 13.

Plutarch, 8, 48, 56.

Po-co-cu'rant-ism, 248.

Pompadour, Madame de, 254.

Pompey, 56.