Grivois : licentious

5. En . . . premiers-Paris": as first articles, head articles. Premier- Paris is the name given to the first article in a paper.

Page 55. — 1. Conteurs d'antan : the story-writers of the years passed by.

2. Bonaventmre Despériers. A poet and story-writer of the sixteenth century, valet of Marguerite de Valois, sister of François I. His works are : Cymbalum mundi and Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux Devis.

3. La Fontaine. Jean de La Fontaine, the gréâtes t fabulist of modem times. He wrote twelve books of Fables and a book of Contes. The subjects of his Contes are often immoral, but the style is full of light humor and élégance. Louis XIV. would not allow the Académie to receive him among them on account of the levity displayed in thèse Contes. (1622- 1695.)