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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°<i S. No 96., Oct. 31. '57. 



the public by M. Quicherat*, is a perfect con- 

 trast to Ronsard. His humorous, and sometimes 

 too unbridled, genius discourses of every-day sub- 

 jects, and his effusions interest us from the allu- 

 sions they contain to contemporary events. The 

 piece, for instance, entitled " Les dix Visions 

 Baude" (pp. 88—90.) is, under an allegorical 

 form, a kind of political resume, and we are able 

 to fix very approximately the date of the " Diet 

 Moral sur le Maintien de Justice," by a glance at 

 the following stanza, which refers to the conquest 

 of Guienne and Normandy over the English : 



" Qui augmenta le royaulme de France ? 

 Qui luy donna si grant magnificence ? 

 Qui recouvra Guyenne et Normandye 

 Puis quarante ans, sans faiie vyolance, 

 En si brief temps, a petite puissance ? 

 Ce fut justice, qui y fut accomplye." 



The editor has subjoined, by way of appendix, 

 a variety of documents relating to Henry Baude, 

 and establishing certain leading points in his bio- 

 graphy. He was born at Moulins in Bourbonnais 

 about the year 14^0, and died towards the begin-, 

 ning of the sixteenth century. Clement Marot 

 borrowed most unscrupulously from the poems of 

 Baude, whose place as a French writer would 

 probably never have been ascertained but for the 

 industry of M. Quicherat. Lacroix du Maine, 

 Duverdier de Vauprivaz and Goujet do not make 

 the slightest mention of him, although they have 

 given, in their respective compilations, many a 

 long column to poets far inferior to him in many 

 respects. 



The third volume which we purpose noticing 

 here contains two short pieces published now for 

 the first time from a MS. in the Imperial Library 

 at Paris. The Memoire dv Voiage en Rvssief is 

 no doubt scientifically unimportant; but the anec- 

 dotes which the worthy sailor Sauvage has put 

 together are amusing, and the second fragment, 

 the Voiage dv Sievr Drach, is particularly valu- 

 able as a piece justijiccdive for one of the greatest 

 events in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The nar- 

 rator has recorded several details previously un- 

 known ; and, as the learned editor, M. Louis 

 Lacour, very aptly remarks, his journal com- 

 pletes the accounts given by Camden, Harris, 

 Lediard, and Hackluyt. 



Since the celebrated publication of M. Qui- 

 cherat J, we may say that we are acquainted with 

 all the particulars relating to the tragical death of 

 the Maid of Orleans ; but, on the other hand, the 



* " Les Vers de Maitre Henri Baude, poete du xv» 

 sibcle, recueillis et publics par M. J. Quicherat." 



t " Memoire dv Voiage en Kvssie fait en 1586 per 

 Jehan Savvage, Dieppois, suivi de rexpeditiou de Drake 

 en Am^rique a la meme epoque, publics pour la premiere 

 fois d'aprSs les mauuscrits de la bibliothfeque Imperiale, 

 par M. Louis Lacour." 



. X Proces de la Pucelle, in the collection of historical 

 documents published under the reiga of Louis Philippe. 



incidents of her early life continue still, at least 

 in their authentic form, comparatively concealed 

 from the majority of general readers, as they are 

 to be found only in the brochures of Charles du 

 Lis, which have become positively introuvdbles. 

 For this reason we are glad that M. Vallet de 

 Viriville has reprinted the pamphlet* De V Ex- 

 traction et Parente de la Pucelle d' Orleans, and 

 the still more important Traite Sommaire. The 

 appendix to his volume includes, amongst other 

 documents, 1°, the patent of nobility granted by 

 Charles VII. to the Dare family ; 2°, another 

 patent granted by Louis XIII. to Charles du 

 Lys; and, 3°, two genealogical tables of the 

 Dares. 



M. Bordier's volume on the churches and mo- 

 nasteries of Paris f is a very welcome contribution 

 to the topographical literature of our neighbours. 

 We have here, in the first place, a correct and 

 annotated reprint of the piece Les Moustiers de 

 Paris, published already by M Meon in his col- 

 lection of tales and fabliaux.| The next morgeau 

 is likewise a poem ; but it is much longer than the 

 preceding one; it contains a greater number of par- 

 ticulars, and is therefore of far greater value, his- 

 torically speaking, than the Moustiers. The reader 

 will find an imperfect extract of it in M. Jubinal's 

 recueil. § The third text is a Latin notice, never 

 printed before, of the lands possessed within Paris 

 by the abbey of Saint-Maur, then called Saint- 

 Pierre-des-Fosses. This curious description has 

 been found by M. Bordier on a fly-leaf of a Bible 

 of the ninth century, belonging to the Imperial 

 Library. The concluding pieces, from the pen of 

 the editor himself, are a succinct account of all the 

 churches and monasteries which existed in Paris 

 between 1325 and 1789 ; and a complete list of 

 the present ecclesiastical buildings, with the date 

 of their foundation.il 



In finishing this short notice we would draw 

 the attention of our readers to M. Aubry's Bul- 

 letin du Bouquiniste, a periodical issued once a 

 fortnight, and deserving the patronage of all 

 litterateurs. Accounts of book-sales, annotated 

 catalogues of bibliographical rarities, notices of 

 important new publications, render M. Aubry's 

 Bulletin particularly useful. Each number is en- 



* " Charles du Lis. — Opuscules Historiques relatifs k 

 Jeanne Dare, dite la Pucelle d'Orleans, nouvelle edition, 

 precedee d'une Notice Historique sur I'Auteur accom- 

 pagnee de diverses notes et d^veloppements et de deux 

 Tableaux Gdnealogiques inedits avec Blasons, par M. 

 Vallet de Viriville." 



t Edit. 1808, cf. vol. ii. p. 287. 



t Edit. 1808, cf. vol. ii. p. 287. 



§ Edit. 1842, cf. vol. ii. p. 102. 



II « Les Eglises et les Monastferes de Paris, Pieces en 

 Prose et en Vers des ix", xiii", et xiv" Sifecles, publi^es 

 avec Notes et Pre'face d'apr^s les Manuscrlts. Par M. H. 

 L. Bordier, Membre de la Soci^td imperiale des Anti- 

 quaires de France." 



