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Rabelais (from Le Tiers Livre, Ch.li) -- Ronsard ('ode A Cassandre') -- Du Bellay ('heureux Qui, Comme Ulysee... ') -- Montaigne (from Essais, Bk. 1, Xxxi) -- Corneille (polyeucte, Lines 721-64) -- Moliere (tartuffe, Lines 266-310) -- La Fontaine (fables, Bk. Ix, Ix) -- Racine (athalie, Lines 1768-90) -- Voltaire (from Letter To M.***) -- Beaumarchais (from Le Barbier De Seville, Act I, Sc.ii) -- Chenier ('pasiphae') -- Balzac (from Histoire Des Treize) -- Musset (lorenzaccio, Act Iv, Sc.v) -- Hugo ('demain, Des L'aube... ') -- Flaubert (from Madame Bovary, Pt. I, Ch. Vi) -- Baudelaire ('la Cloche Felee') -- Sully-prudhomme ('le Vase Brise') -- Verlaine ('a Clymene') -- Goncourt (from Madame Gervaisais, Ch. Xliii) -- Mallarme ('victorieusement Fui Le Suicide Beau... ') -- Regnier ('odelette') -- Alain-fournier (from Le Grand Meaulnes, Pt. I, Ch. Xv) -- Proust (from A L'ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs, Pt. I) -- Colette (from La Maison De Claudine, Ch. X) -- Mauriac (from Therese Desqueyroux, Ch. Iii). By W. D. Howarth And C. L. Walton. Selections In French, Commentaries In English Bibliography: P. 267-270.