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[2nd S. V. 124,, May 15. '58. 



I'Acad^mie Imp^riale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts 

 de Bordeaux." 



Pierre de Brach, " pofete Bordelais du X VI«. Sifecle," was 

 in his time a writer of some reputation; he belonged 

 to the school of Ronsard, he enjoyed the friendship of 

 Montaigne, and he had composed many works of which a 

 few were bona, although more fell to the medloeria, and 

 the great majority even as low as mala. He never anti- 

 cipated, however, the honours bestowed upon him by an 

 editor of the nineteenth century: — splendid paper, beau- 

 tiful type, the combined resources of learning, art, and 

 taste. M. Reinhold Dezeimeris very properly protests 

 against the imputation of writing up a personage who was 

 not even " un des bons pontes de la France ; " but in re- 

 lating the life of Pierre de Brach, he has given us an 

 interesting chapter of the history of French literature 

 during the Renaissance period, and the judicious criticism 

 which accompanies the numerous extracts he transcribes 

 from the great stars of La Pleiade does the highest credit 

 to his taste. The Notice sur Pierre de Brach obtained 

 lately a prize at the Societe des Belles-Lettres of Bordeaux, 



"Voyaige d'Oulfremer en .Jh^rusalem, par le Seigneur 

 de Caumont I'an MCCCCXVIIL, public pour la premiere 

 fois d'aprfes le manuscrit du Mus^e Britannique, par le 

 Marquis de la Grange, Membre de I'lnstitut." 



In days long gone by. Father Anselme had announced 

 (^HistoireGenMogique et Chronologique des Pairs de France, 

 tome iv. p. 470.) the existence of two French works till 

 then unknown. The first was a collection of moral pre- 

 cepts, in verse, addressed by a father to his children ; the 

 second, which the learned monk attributed to a separate 

 author, was the journal of a voyage to the Holy Land. 

 The Dits et Enseignements du Seigneur de Caumont, dis- 

 covered at P^rigueux, were published in 1846 by M. Galy, 

 librarian in that city; about the same time, or very 

 shortly after, M. Delpit found amongst the treasures of 

 the Egerton Collection at the British Museum the other 

 volume alluded to by Father Anselme. The Voyage 

 d''Oidtremer en Jerusalem begins with the following index 

 rerum : — 



" C'est le livre que, je, le Seigneur de Caumont, aj' fait 

 du voyaige d'oultremer en Jherusalem .... 



" Item, Ung autre voyaige que je fis h Monseigneur 

 Saint Jaques et k Nostre-Dame de finibus terre . . . 



" Item, Ung autre romans que je fis d'enseignemens." 



Now this autre romans is nothing else but the Dits et 

 Enseignemens already printed under M. Galy's care, and 

 which the Egerton MS. gives exactly as we "find them in 

 the Perigueux codex. We thus are able to assert that 

 both productions are from the pen of the same author, 

 Nompar U., Seigneur de Caumont, who lived during the 

 fifteenth centur3^ 



M. le Marquis de la Grange, editor of the volume we 

 are at present considering, has added to Caumont's journal 

 all the supplemental documents expected in similar cases. 

 The introductorj' preface, besides detailing the history 

 of the Perigueux and Egerton MSS., contains various 

 particulars regarding the author's family: two indices 

 and a glossary are likewise appended, furnishing a clue 

 to the geographical and grammatical difficulties which 

 may occasionally puzzle the reader. 



I have left myself no room to speak of a great many 

 other books now lying on my table ; so I must postpone 

 to some future time intended notices of M. .Jannet's new 

 publications, M. de Resbecq's Voyage Litteraire, Sfc. Jn 

 concluding this fenil/ctoji , let me jnst say that in the last 

 number of the JBulletin du Bouquiniste, M. Paul Lacroix 

 has refuted M. Chassant's assertion respecting Jacques 

 Saquespe, the alleged author of the ChfUelain De Coucy. 

 According to M. Lacroix the real Simon Pure is Jean 



Certain, a trouvere mentioned by the compilers of the 

 Histoire Litteraire de la France (t. xxiii. p. 537.). 



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