Part 2

FRANCE

Twelfth Century--1885

GEOFFREY DE VILLE-HARDOUIN--(Born between 1150 and 1165; died in 1212.)

The Sack of Constantinople.

(From "The Chronicles." Translated by Eric Arthur Bell)

JEAN DE JOINVILLE--(Born in 1224, died in 1317.)

Greek Fire in Battle.

(From "The Memoirs of Louis IX, King of France." Translated by Thomas Johnes)

"AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE."

(A French romance of the 12th Century, the author's name unknown)

JEAN FROISSART--(Born in 1337, died in 1410.)

The Battle of Crécy (1346).

(From the "Chronicles." Translated by Thomas Johnes)

PHILIPPE DE COMINES--(Born in France about 1445, died in 1511.)

Of the Character of Louis XI

(From the "Memoirs." Translated by Andrew R. Scoble)

MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME--(Born in 1492, died in 1549.)

Of Husbands Who Are Unfaithful.

(From the "Heptameron")

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS--(Born in 1495, died in 1553.)

I Gargantua in His Childhood.

(From "The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua." Translated by Urquhart and Motteux)

II Gargantua's Education.

(From "The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua." Translated by Urquhart and Motteux)

III Of the Founding of an Ideal Abbey.

(From "The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua." Translated by Urquhart and Motteux)

JOHN CALVIN--(Born in 1509, died in 1564.)

Of Freedom for the Will.