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1, 533. François de Malherbe (1555-1628), the great reformer of French poetry, was sumamed le tyran des mots et des syllabes, on account of bis dictatorial manners.

Jean Louis Guez de Balzac (1594-1655), an excellent prose writer, and one of the most celebrated littérateurs of the beginning of the seventeenth century. See his letter to Corneille, above, pp. 90-92.

1. 539. Guenille, rag, probably derived from the Old French gone (£ng. goum). The diminutives are gonelle, gunelle, gunèle. ** Laissa le siècle por devenir prud^om.

Et prist la gonne et le noir chaperon."

(Roman de Guillaume au Couitnez.)