Littérature Française (Première Année)

猆
Fran?aise (Première Année), by E. Aubert

Project Gutenberg's Littérature Fran?aise (Première Année), by E. Aubert This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Littérature Fran?aise (Première Année) Moyen-?ge, Renaissance, Dix-Septième Siècle
Author: E. Aubert
Release Date: September 24, 2007 [EBook #22751]
Language: French
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTéRATURE FRAN?AISE ***

Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected and accentuation has been made consistent. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling has been maintained.]

NORMAL SéRIES

LITTéRATURE FRAN?AISE
PREMIèRE ANNéE
MOYEN-?GE, RENAISSANCE, DIX-SEPTIèME SIèCLE
PAR
E. AUBERT
Normal College, New York, auteur des échos et Reflets, du Colloquial French Drill, et des élans et Tristesses.

[Illustration: Editor's arms.]
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1885, by Henry HOLT & Co.

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 about as exactly as a stone offers the image of the monument 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 Molière'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.

TABLE DES MATIèRES.
MOYEN-?GE. Page
Geoffroy de Villehardouin ................................... 3 Joinville ................................................... 4 Jehan Froissart ............................................. 6 Philippe de Comines ......................................... 8 Poésie ................................................. 10 Thibaut de Champagne ....................................... 11 Charles d'Orléans .......................................... 11 Villon ..................................................... 11 Les Dames du temps jadis ................................. 11
RENAISSANCE.
Rabelais ................................................... 13 Montaigne .................................................. 16 De l'Institution des Enfants ............................. 19 Calvin ..................................................... 23 Amyot ...................................................... 24 Marot ...................................................... 26 Ronsard .................................................... 26 Regnier .................................................... 27 Ronsard:--Ode--Sonnet ...................................... 27 Regnier:--philosophes rêveurs .............................. 28 Pensées détachées ........................................ 28 Malherbe ................................................... 29 élégie à Du Périer ....................................... 31 Paraphrase du Psaume CXLV ................................ 32 Vers populaires de Malherbe .............................. 33
DIX-SEPTIèME SIèCLE.
Descartes .................................................. 34 Discours de la Méthode ................................... 38
Corneille .................................................. 42 Horace--Tragédie ......................................... 47 Vers détachés, sentencieux et populaires ................. 59
Pascal ..................................................... 63 De l'Art de Persuader .................................... 67 Connaissance générale de l'Homme ......................... 67 Vanité de l'Homme ........................................ 70 Faiblesse de l'Homme. Incertitude des connaissances ...... 71 Misère de l'Homme ........................................ 71 Pensées diverses ......................................... 72
Molière .................................................... 76 Les Femmes savantes--Comédie ............................. 80 Vers sentencieux et populaires ........................... 99
La Fontaine ............................................... 101 La Mort et le B?cheron .................................. 105 Le Chêne et le Roseau ................................... 106 Le Lion et le Rat ....................................... 107 Le Renard et le Bouc .................................... 108 Le Chameau et les Batons flottants ...................... 108 Le Renard et le Buste ................................... 109 Parole de Socrate ....................................... 110 L'Alouette et ses Petits ................................ 110 Le Laboureur et ses Enfants ............................. 112 La Poule aux OEufs d'or ................................. 113 Le Serpent et la Lime ................................... 113 L'?ne vêtu de la Peau du Lion ........................... 114 Le Mulet se vantant de sa Généalogie .................... 114 Le Lièvre et la Tortue .................................. 115 Le Cheval et l'?ne ...................................... 116 Les Animaux malades de la Peste ......................... 116 Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin ................... 118 L'Avantage de la Science ................................