Xiy ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
a. d. Page
Friendship of Boileau for Racine - _ 279
They are appointed Historiographers - - 279
1678. They attend Louis XIV. to the Siege of Ghent • - 280
Campaign of these Poets - - f . 281
Boileau leaves the military duties to Racine - - 281
Abbe Arnauld and the Jansenists - . 283
Boileau joins the Jansenists - - -283
He is elected of the French Academy - 284
1687. JEtat. 51. Visits the Baths of Bourbon for Health . -285
1692. JEtat. 56. His attack on Charles Perrault - - 287
Boileau’s Satire on Women - 288
Racine ’s explanations of his and Boileau’s Pensions • - 289
Boileau’s great Regard for Jean Racine - - 289
1698. JEtat. 62. Is named sole Historiographer on the Death of Ra-cine - - - 291
Latter Years of the Satirist passed in Tranquillity and Happi-ness - - . 291
Louis Racine , Son of the Dramatic Poet - -291
Boileau sells his House at Auteuil - - - 292
His Piety and strict Observances - - 293
Prepares a complete Edition of his Works - -293
His “ Dialogue on the Romances ” - 293
1711. JEtat. 75. His Death - - - - 293
His Character for Wit - - - - 294
RACINE.
1639—1699.
1639. Birth of Jean Racine - - - -297
His Education at Beauvais - - 297
1655. JEtat. 16. Received as a Pupil at Port Royal - 298
Rivalry of the Jesuits and Jansenists - 298
His Enthusiasm for the Tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides - 2991660. Marriage of Louis XIV. - - 300
Racine on this Occasion writes the Ode “ Nymphes de laSeine ” - - - 301
Chapelain recommends him to the Minister Colbert - - 301
Racine resides with his Uncle le Pere Sconin at Uzfcs, in Pro-vence - - 302
His Poem, “The Bath of Venus” - - -304
Returned to Paris , and employed by Molifcre in Dramatic Com-position - - 304
1664. JEtat. 25. His “ Alexandre ” - 305,306
He teaches the celebrated Champmele to recite - - 307
He replies to M. Nicole - - _ 307