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POPULAR SONGS . . . . : 



Definition and Classification of Popular Song. Songs of the Germans, the Gauls, the 

 Goths, and the Franks. They are collected by order of Charlemagne. Vestiges of 

 the most Ancient Songs. The Historical Songs of France- down to the Sixteenth 

 Century. Romanesque Songs. Religious Songs. The Christmas Carols and the 

 Canticles. Legendary Songs. Domestic Songs. The Music of the Popular Songs. 

 Provincial Songs. The Songs of Germany. The Minnesingers and the Meister- 

 singers. The Songs of England, of Scotland, and of Northern Countries. The Songs 

 of Greece, of Italy, and of Spain. 



NATIONAL POETEY 421 



i Decadence of Latin Poetry. Origins of Vulgar Poetry. Troubadours, Trouveres, and 

 Jugglers. Rutebeuf. Thibaud of Navarre and his School. Marie de France. 

 " Romance of the Renard." The G'uyot Bible." The Romance of the Rose." The 

 Minnesingers. Dante. " The Romancero." The Meistersingers. Petrarch. 

 English Poets ; Chaucer. Eustache Deschamps, Alain Chartier, Charles d'Orleans, 

 Villon. Chambers of Rhetoric. Poets of the Court of Burgundy. Modern Latin 

 Poetry. The Poems of Chivalry in Italy. Clement Marot and his School. The 

 Epic Poems ; Tasso, Camoens. Poets of Germany and of the Northern Countries. 

 Ronsard and his School. Poetry under, the Valois Kings. 



CHRONICLES, HISTORIES, MEMOIRS 455 



First Historians of the Church. The Last Latin and Greek Historians. Latin 

 Chronicles: Marius, Cassiodorus, Jornandes. Gregory of Tours. Fredegaire. 

 Monastic Chronicles. Chronicles from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century. 

 Historians of the Crusades. Historians of Foreign Countries. Latin Chronicles of 

 the Abbey of St. Denis. Chronicles in- Rhyme. Early French Chronicles. Ville- 

 hardouin. The Sire de Joinville. Chronicles of St. Denis. Froissart. Monstrelet. 

 Chastellain. French Translations of the Ancient Historians. Library of Charles V. 

 Chroniclers of the Fifteenth Century. Historians of the Court of Burgundy. 

 Private Chronicles and Lives of Illustrious Men. Personal Memoirs. Histories of 

 France in the Sixteenth Century. 



THE DRAMA . 488 



Disappearance of the Ancient Theatre. First Essays of the Christian Theatre. Pious 

 Representations in the Churches. The Latin Drama of Hfosvitha. The Mystery of 

 Adam. The Great Mysteries. Progress of the Theatre in Europe. Brothers of the 

 Passion in Paris. Public Representations. The Mystery of St. Louis. Comedy 

 since the Thirteenth Century. Jean de la Halle. The Farce de Pathelin. The 

 Bazoche. The Eufants sans Souci. The Theatre in Spain and in Italy. Creation of 

 the Literary Theatre, in the Sixteenth Century, in France. 



CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS ORATORY 519 



The Oratorical Genius of the Gauls. The Origin of the French Bar. Christian Oratory 

 in the First Centuries. Gallo-Roman Oratory. Preachers and Missionaries. 

 Orators of the Crusades. St. Bernard and St. Dominic>jCl > leadings at the Bar 

 under Louis XL Political Oratory under Charles VI. Popular Preachers. Orators 

 of the Reformation. Orators of the League. Parliamentary Harangues. Oratory 

 in the States-General. Military Oratory. 



