VII. SCIENTIFIC WRITERS 499 Buffon. Lesser Scientific Writers. Voyages and Travels. Linguistic and Literary Study. INTERCHAPTER IV. SUMMARY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE 504 BOOK V. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 510 The Romantic Movement. Writers of the later Transition. Beranger. Lamartine. Lamennais. Victor Cousin. Beyle. Nodier. Delavigne. Soumet. The Romantic Propaganda in Periodicals. Victor Hugo. Sainte-Beuve. His Method. Dangers of the Method. Dumas the Elder. Honore de Balzac. George Sand. Merimee. Theophile Gautier. Alfred de Musset. Influence of the Romantic Leaders. Minor Poets of 1830. Alfred de Vigny. Auguste Barbier. Gerard de Nerval. Curiosites Romantiques. Petrus Borel. Louis Bertrand. Second Group of Romantic Poets. Theodore de Banville. Leconte de Lisle. Charles Baudelaire. Minor Poets of the Second Romantic Group. Dupont. The Parnasse. Minor and later Dramatists. Scribe. Ponsard. Emile Augier. Eugene Labiche. Dumas the Younger. Victorien Sardou. Classes of Nineteenth-century Fiction. Minor and later Novelists. Jules Janin. Charles de Bernard. Jules Sandeau. Octave Feuillet. Murger. Edmond About. Feydeau. Gustave Droz. Flaubert. The Naturalists. Emile Zola. Journalists and Critics. Paul de St. Victor. Hippolyte Taine. Academic Critics. Linguistic and Literary Study of French. Philosophical Writers. Comte. Theological Writers. Montalembert. Ozanam. Lacordaire. Ernest Renan. Historians. Thierry. Thiers. Guizot. Mignet. Michelet. Quinet. Tocqueville. Minor Historians. CONCLUSION 579 INDEX 591 BOOK I. MEDIAEVAL LITERATURE. CHAPTER I. THE ORIGINS. [Sidenote: Relation of French to Latin.]