Chapter IV: Book III: The Seventeenth Century

CHAP. I. POETS 274

Malherbe. The School of Malherbe. Vers de Societe. Voiture. Epic School. Chapelain. Bacchanalian School. Saint Amant. La Fontaine. Boileau. Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century.

II. DRAMATISTS 290

Montchrestien. Hardy. Minor predecessors of Corneille. Rotrou. Corneille. Racine. Minor Tragedians. Development of Comedy. Moliere. Contemporaries of Moliere. The School of Moliere. Regnard. Characteristics of Molieresque Comedy.

III. NOVELISTS 319

D'Urfe. The Heroic Romances. Scarron. Cyrano de Bergerac. Furetiere. Madame de la Fayette. Fairy Tales. Perrault.

IV. HISTORIANS, MEMOIR-WRITERS, LETTER-WRITERS 332

General Historians. Mezeray. Historical Essayists. St. Real. Memoir-writers. Rohan. Bassompierre. Madame de Motteville. Cardinal de Retz. Mademoiselle. La Rochefoucauld. Saint Simon. Madame de Sevigne. Tallemant des Reaux. Historical Antiquaries. Du Cange.

V. ESSAYISTS, MINOR MORALISTS, CRITICS 354

Balzac. Pascal. La Rochefoucauld. La Bruyere.

VI. PHILOSOPHERS 368

Descartes. Port Royal. Bayle. Malebranche.

VII. THEOLOGIANS AND PREACHERS 379

St. Francois de Sales. Bossuet. Fenelon. Massillon. Bourdaloue. Minor Preachers.

INTERCHAPTER III. SUMMARY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE 391