Littérature Française (Première Année)

Française (Première Année), by
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Title: Littérature Française (Première Année) Moyen-Âge, Renaissance,
Dix-Septième Siècle
Author: E. Aubert
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LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE
PREMIÈRE ANNÉE
MOYEN-ÂGE, 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-ÂGE. 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
Bûcheron .................................. 105 Le Chêne et le
Roseau ................................... 106 Le Lion et le
Rat ....................................... 107 Le Renard et le
Bouc .................................... 108 Le Chameau et les Bâtons
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'Âne vêtu de la Peau du
Lion ........................... 114 Le Mulet se