=LA BRUYÈRE= (lä brü-e-y êr´), Jean (1646?-1696), 12, 75-81, 153. =LA FONTAINE= (lä foN-tān´), Jean de (1621-1695), 12, 81-92. Lamartine (lä-mar-tēn´), Alphonse Marie Louis de (1780-1869), 14, 206, 289. _Langue d'oc_, 4. _Langue d'oïl_, 4. Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881), 25. =LA ROCHEFOUCAULD= (lä rōsh-foo-kō´), François, 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-vwä´), Marquis de, 142. Lowell, James Russell, 291. Lucan, 151, 153, 240. Lucretius, 94, 166. Luther, Martin, 7, 40. Maintenon (măN-teh-noN´), Madame de (1635-1719), 172, 181, 210, 211. Malherbe (mäl-êrb´), François (1555-1628), 9, 10, 14. Martin (mar-tăN´), Henri (1810- ), 183. Mary, Queen of Scots, 8, 198. =MASSILLON= (mäs-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. =MOLIÈRE= (mo-le-êr´) (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-tān´), Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592), 2, 7, 8, 44-65, 67, 75, 131, 230, 234, 257, 268. Montespan (moN-tĕss-päN´), Madame de (1641-1707), 138, 139, 140. =MONTESQUIEU=, de (moN-tĕs-kê-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 (mü-sā´) (1810-1857), Alfred de, 289. Napoleon Bonaparte, 13, 166. Nathan (the prophet), 198. Newton, Sir Isaac, 115. Nicole (ne-kŏl´), 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 (pä-nürzh´), 40, 41, 42. =PASCAL=, Blaise (1623-1662), 3, 12, 48, 62, 65, 80, 115-133, 193. Pascal, Jacqueline, 116. Pelisson (pĕl-ē-soN´), 149. Petrarch, Francesco, 20. Phædrus, 85. Plato, 50, 51, 59. Pleiades (plē´ya-dēz), 8, 10, 13. Plutarch, 8, 48, 56. Po-co-cu´rant-ism, 248. Pompadour, Madame de, 254. Pompey, 56. Pope, Alexander, 48, 166. Poquelin (po-ke-lăN´). _See_ Molière, 94, 95. Port Royal, 119, 127, 128, 147, 168. Pradon (prä-doN´), 171. _Provençal_ (pro-väN-sal), 4. Ptolemy Philadelphus, 8. Quentin Durward, 7. =RABELAIS= (ră-blā´), François (1495?-1553?), 3, 7, 28-43, 60, 65, 83, 146. =RACINE= (rä-seen´), Jean (1639-1699), 12, 78, 79, 80, 83, 151, 152, 153, 166-181, 205. Rambouillet (räN-boo-yā´), Hôtel de, 10, 11, 12, 100, 105, 155, 156, 183. Raphael (archangel), 205. Récamier (rā-kä-me-ā´), Madame (1777-1849), 11. Richard, the Lion-hearted, 117. Richelieu (rēsh-le-uh´), Cardinal, 10, 12, 95, 154, 156.