D'Urfe. The Heroic Romances. Scarron. Cyrano de Bergerac. Furetiere. Madame de la Fayette. Fairy Tales. Perrault. IV. HISTORIANS, MEMOIR-WRITERS, LETTER-WRITERS 332 General Historians. Mezeray. Historical Essayists. St. Real. Memoir-writers. Rohan. Bassompierre. Madame de Motteville. Cardinal de Retz. Mademoiselle. La Rochefoucauld. Saint Simon. Madame de Sevigne. Tallemant des Reaux. Historical Antiquaries. Du Cange. V. ESSAYISTS, MINOR MORALISTS, CRITICS 354 Balzac. Pascal. La Rochefoucauld. La Bruyere. VI. PHILOSOPHERS 368 Descartes. Port Royal. Bayle. Malebranche. VII. THEOLOGIANS AND PREACHERS 379 St. Francois de Sales. Bossuet. Fenelon. Massillon. Bourdaloue. Minor Preachers. INTERCHAPTER III. SUMMARY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE 391 BOOK IV. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CHAP. I. POETS 395 Literary Degeneracy of the Eighteenth Century, especially manifest in Poetry. J. B. Rousseau. Voltaire. Descriptive Poets. Delille. Lebrun. Parny. Chenier. Minor Poets. Light Verse. Piron. Desaugiers. CHAP. II. DRAMATISTS 406 Divisions of Drama. La Motte. Crebillon the Elder. Voltaire and his followers. Lesage. Comedie Larmoyante. La Chaussee. Diderot. Marivaux. Beaumarchais. Characteristics of Eighteenth-century Drama. III. NOVELISTS 416 Lesage. Marivaux. Prevost. Voltaire. Diderot. Rousseau. Crebillon the Younger. Bernardin de St. Pierre. Restif de la Bretonne. Chateaubriand. Madame de Stael. Xavier de Maistre. Benjamin Constant. IV. HISTORIANS, MEMOIR-WRITERS, LETTER-WRITERS 436 Characteristics and Divisions of Eighteenth-century History. Rollin. Dubos. Boulainvilliers. Voltaire. Mably. Rulhiere. Memoirs. Mme. de Staal-Delaunay. Duclos. Besenval. Madame d'Epinay. Minor Memoirs. Memoirs of the Revolutionary Period. Abundance of Letter-writers. Mademoiselle Aisse. Madame du Deffand. Mademoiselle de Lespinasse. Voltaire. Diderot. Galiani. V. ESSAYISTS, MINOR MORALISTS, CRITICS 452 Occasional Writing in the Eighteenth-century. Periodicals. Fontenelle. La Motte. Vauvenargues. D'Aguesseau. Duclos. Marmontel. La Harpe. Thomas. Orthodox Apologists. Freron. Philosophe Criticism. D'Alembert. Diderot. Les Feuilles de Grimm. Diderot's Salons. His General Criticism. Newspapers of the Revolution. The Influence of Journalism. Chamfort. Rivarol. Joubert. Courier. Senancour. VI. PHILOSOPHERS 473 The philosophe movement. Montesquieu. Lettres Persanes. Grandeur et Decadence des Romains. Esprit des Lois. Voltaire. The Encyclopaedia. Diderot. D'Alembert. Rousseau. Political Economists. Vauban, Quesnay, etc. Turgot. Condorcet. Volney. La Mettrie. Helvetius. Systeme de la Nature. Condillac. Joseph de Maistre. Bonald.