ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE,
IX
A. d. Page
Friendship of Moli&re with Boileau, Racine, and the Wits of hisTime - - - - • 1S1
A Supper Party described - - - 131
“ Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ” - - -132
Moli^re’s Comedy of “ Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” - -133
Scene from '* Les Femmes Savantes” - - 135
1673. Moli^re writes M Le Malade Imaginaire” - -138
JEtat. 51. Is carried from the Stage in a dying State - - 139
Funeral Rites denied him - 140
Character of MoliSre - - - - 141
His Charity - . - - 143
His Style - - 146
His Troop of Comedians dispersed - - 148
LA FONTAINE.
1621—1695.
1621. Birth of Jean de la Fontaine - 150
His Father a Keeper of the Royal Domains in his District - 150La Fontaine enters the Oratoire, a religious Order - - 151
He throws off the fetters of a monastic Life, and marries Maried’Hgricart - - - - 151
The Keepership of the Royal Domain is devolved on him - 151
La Fontaine reads an Ode by Malherbe, and commences Poet - 152
He studies the Classics - - -153
His Style simple, unaffected, and something antiquated - 153
His Study of the great Italian Writers, of Rabelais, and of Cle-ment Marot - r 154
Writes “ Adonis” in Heroic Verse - - -155
Is jealous of M. Poignan, a military Man, and fights him - 156
His Wife’s Temper - - - 157
His own Forgetfulness, and Anecdotes explanatory of its in-tensity - - - - 157
The Duchess de Bouillon notices him - - 158
His Appointment in the Duke of Bouillon’s House - - 159
The Duchess takes him to Paris - - 159
Account of the Mancinis, Duchesses of Mazarin, and of Bouil-lon - - - 159
La Fontaine’s Parisian friends, Molieire, Racine, and Boileau - 160His Distractions , or Absences of Mind - - 160
Forgets home and his Wife - - - 161
His Journeys to Chateau Thierry - - - 161
Receives a Pension from Fouquet - 162
Elegance of his fugitive Poetry - - 162
Fouquet disgraced - - 162
La Fontaine endeavours to soften Louis XIV . towards this un-fortunate Minister - - - 162
“ Contes et Merveilles, en Vers,” of La Fontaine - 163
His “ Psyche and Cupid ” - . - - • 163