Time 131 A Supper Party described 131 "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac" 132 Molière's Comedy of "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" 133 Scene from "Les Femmes Savantes" 135 1673. Molière writes "Le Malade Imaginaire" 138 Ætat. 51. Is carried from the Stage in a dying State 139 Funeral Rites denied him 140 Character of Molière 141 His Charity 143 His Style 146 His Troop of Comedians dispersed 148 LA FONTAINE. 1621-1695. 1621. Birth of Jean de la Fontaine 150 His Father a Keeper of the Royal Domains in his District 150 La Fontaine enters the Oratoire, a religious Order 151 He throws off the fetters of a monastic Life, and marries Marie d'Héricart 151 The Keepership of the Royal Domain is devolved on him 151 La Fontaine reads an Ode by Malherbe, and commences Poet 152 He studies the Classics 153 His Style simple, unaffected, and something antiquated 153 His Study of the great Italian Writers, of Rabelais, and of Clement Marot 154 Writes "Adonis" in Heroic Verse 155 Is jealous of M. Poignan, a military Man, and fights him 156 His Wife's Temper 157 His own Forgetfulness, and Anecdotes explanatory of its intensity 157 The Duchess de Bouillon notices him 158 His Appointment in the Duke of Bouillon's House 159 The Duchess takes him to Paris 159 Account of the Mancinis, Duchesses of Mazarin, and of Bouillon 159 La Fontaine's Parisian friends, Molière, Racine, and Boileau 160 His Distractions, or Absences of Mind 160 Forgets home and his Wife 161 His Journeys to Château Thierry 161 Receives a Pension from Fouquet 162 Elegance of his fugitive Poetry 162