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. La Noue. Agrippa d'Aubigne. Marguerite de Valois. Vieilleville. Palma-Cayet. Pierre de l'Estoile. D'Ossat. Sully. Jeannin. Minor Memoir-writers. General Historians. VIII. THE SATYRE MENIPPEE. REGNIER 259 Satyre Menippee. Regnier. INTERCHAPTER II. SUMMARY OF RENAISSANCE LITERATURE 270 BOOK III. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. CHAP. I. POETS 274 Malherbe. The School of Malherbe. Vers de Societe. Voiture. Epic School. Chapelain. Bacchanalian School. Saint Amant. La Fontaine. Boileau. Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century. II. DRAMATISTS 290 Montchrestien. Hardy. Minor predecessors of Corneille. Rotrou. Corneille. Racine. Minor Tragedians. Development of Comedy. Moliere. Contemporaries of Moliere. The School of Moliere. Regnard. Characteristics of Molieresque Comedy. III. NOVELISTS 319