M. Alfred Jeanroy has written a learned and extensive monograph on _Les Origines de la Poesie Lyrique en France_, which with M. Gaston Raynaud's _Bibliographie des Chansonniers Francais_, and his collection of _Motets_ of our present period, is indispensable to the thorough student of the subject.[125] But for general literary purposes the two classics of the matter are, and are long likely to be, the charming _Romancero Francais_[126] which M. Paulin Paris published in the very dawn of the study of mediaeval literature in France, and the admirable _Romanzen und Pastourellen_[127] which Herr Karl Bartsch collected and issued a quarter of a century ago. Here as elsewhere the piecemeal system of publication which has been the bane of the whole subject is to be regretted, for with a little effort and a little division of labour the entire _corpus_ of French lyric from the tenth to the fourteenth century might have been easily set before the public. But the two volumes above mentioned will enable the reader to judge its general characteristics with pretty absolute sureness; and if he desires to supplement them with the work of a single author, that of Thibaut of Champagne or Navarre,[128] which is easily accessible, will form an excellent third. [Footnote 125: M. Jeanroy, as is also the case with other writers of monographs mentioned in this chapter, has contributed to M. Petit de Julleville's _Histoire_ (_v._ p. 23) on his subject.] [Footnote 126: Paris, 1833.] [Footnote 127: Leipzig, 1870.] [Footnote 128: Rheims, 1851.] [Sidenote: _The_ Romance _and the_ Pastourelle.]