CHAPTER XII. "sensibility." Minor and Later Novelists. the French

"SENSIBILITY." MINOR AND LATER NOVELISTS. THE FRENCH NOVEL, c. 1800 428

"Sensibility"--A glance at Miss Austen--The thing essentially French--Its history--Mme. de Tencin and Le Comte de Comminge--Mme. Riccoboni and Le Marquis de Cressy--Her other work: Milady Catesby--Mme. de Beaumont: Lettres du Marquis de Roselle--Mme. de Souza--Xavier de Maistre--His illustrations of the lighter side of Sensibility--A sign of decadence--Benjamin Constant: Adolphe--Mme. de Duras's "postscript"--Sensibilité and engouement--Some final words on the matter--Its importance here--Restif de la Bretonne--Pigault-Lebrun: the difference of his positive and relative importance--His life and the reasons for giving it--His general characteristics--L'Enfant du Carnaval and Les Barons de Felsheim--Angélique et Jeanneton--Mon Oncle Thomas--Jérôme--The redeeming points of these--Others: Adélaïde de Méran and Tableaux de Société--L'Officieux--Further examples--Last words on him--The French novel in 1800.

CHRONOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF FRENCH FICTION NOTICED IN THIS VOLUME 475

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 479

INDEX 483