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Litt\u00e9rature Fran\u00e7aise
PREMI\u00c8RE ANN\u00c9E
MOYEN-\u00c2GE, RENAISSANCE, DIX-SEPTI\u00c8ME SI\u00c8CLE
PAR
E. AUBERT
Normal College, New York, auteur des \u00c9chos et Reflets, du Colloquial French Drill, et des \u00c9lans et Tristesses.
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1885, by
Henry Holt & Co.
(p. iii) PREFACE.
This volume contains in substance the first part of the course on French Literature given in the Normal
College.

Though adapted to the requirements of a special programme and to certain conditions of space and time, it can
with advantage be used wherever an interest is taken or instruction given in French Literature. It recommends
itself particularly to American teachers and students as a book, not imported into, but grown out of, the
class-room.

The biographical and critical notices are short, comprehensive, in the clearest and simplest possible style.
There is nothing elaborate in them, nothing superfluous. Each of them is followed by a criticism on the writer
under consideration, by some one whose judgment is of some account in the world of letters. It is both
interesting and instructive to know what good critics think of good writers.

The texts from the latter have been selected with great care. They are not extracts more or less curtailed,
which give an idea of a literary work (p. iv) about as exactly as a stone offers the image of the monument
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from which it is taken. Whenever it has been practicable, a whole work is reviewed. The parts that are not indispensable are summarily delineated or analyzed; the passages best calculated to illustrate the author's manner and originality are given in full. Thus the reader will find the whole plot of Corneille's tragedy "Horace," of Moli\u00e8re's comedy "Les Femmes savantes," etc.

Following these texts will be found a collection of the author's sententious and popular sayings. They afford a
harvest of beautiful quotations, which every one can turn to account.
Footnotes have been added only to explain what will not be found in an ordinary dictionary.

It will be noticed that some of the text is printed with the lines well apart, and some with them close together.
The former portion is for recitation and colloquial exercise, the portion in close print is for reading and
explaining. The selections are of sufficient variety and excellence to commend themselves to all lovers of fine
literature.
E. A.

(p. v) TABLE DES MATI\u00c8RES.
MOYEN-\u00c2GE.
Geoffroy de Villehardouin,
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Joinville,
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Jehan Froissart,
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Philippe de Comines,
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Po\u00e9sie,
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Thibaut de Champagne,
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Charles d'Orl\u00e9ans,
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Villon,
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Les Dames du temps jadis,
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RENAISSANCE.
Rabelais,
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Montaigne,
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De l'Institution des Enfants,
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Calvin,
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Amyot,
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Marot,
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Ronsard,
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Regnier,
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Ronsard:\u2014Ode\ue000Sonnet,
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Regnier:\ue001philosophes r\u00eaveurs,
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Pens\u00e9es d\u00e9tach\u00e9es,
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Malherbe,
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\u00c9l\u00e9gie \u00e0 Du P\u00e9rier,
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Paraphrase du Psaume CXLV,
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Vers populaires de Malherbe,
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(p. vi) DIX-SEPTI\u00c8ME SI\u00c8CLE.
Descartes,
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Discours de la M\u00e9thode,
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Corneille,
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Horace\ue002Trag\u00e9die,
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Vers d\u00e9tach\u00e9s, sentencieux et populaires,
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Pascal,
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De l'Art de Persuader,
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Connaissance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l'Homme,
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Vanit\u00e9 de l'Homme,
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Faiblesse de l'Homme. Incertitude des connaissances,>
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Mis\u00e8re de l'Homme,
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Pens\u00e9es diverses,
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Moli\u00e8re,
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Les Femmes savantes\ue003Com\u00e9die,
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Vers sentencieux et populaires,
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La Fontaine,
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La Mort et le B\u00fbcheron,
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Le Ch\u00eane et le Roseau,
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Le Lion et le Rat,
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Le Renard et le Bouc,
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Le Chameau et les B\u00e2tons flottants,
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Le Renard et le Buste,
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Parole de Socrate,
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L'Alouette et ses Petits,
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Le Laboureur et ses Enfants,
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La Poule aux \u0152ufs d'or,
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Le Serpent et la Lime,
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L'\u00c2ne v\u00eatu de la Peau du Lion,
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Le Mulet se vantant de sa G\u00e9n\u00e9alogie,
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Le Li\u00e8vre et la Tortue,
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Le Cheval et l'\u00c2ne,
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Les Animaux malades de la Peste,
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(p. vii)Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin,
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L'Avantage de la Science,
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Les deux Pigeons,
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Le Vieillard et les trois jeunes Hommes,
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Vers sentencieux et populaires,
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Boileau,
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\u00c9p\u00eetre V., \u00e0 Monsieur Guilleragues,
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\u00c9p\u00eetre VI., \u00e0 Monsieur Lamoignon,
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Art Po\u00e9tique. Chant premier,
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Vers sentencieux et populaires,
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Racine,
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