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3, 4. Amyoty Jacques (15x3-1593)1 translator, especially of Plutarch's Lives, still the favorite book for boys in France. — CoëffeteaUy Nicolas (1574-1623), author of a now forgotten Histoire romaine f but a clear and correct writer.

5. Ce n'est point assez, etc. ; the keys of the day would hâve this paragraph refer to the comédies of the actor Baron (Michel Boyron, 1 653-1 729), and the last few Unes to his Homme à bonnes fortunes (1686) particularly. But Molière may also hâve been in mind ("d'un malade dans sa garde-robe"), while the question is the gênerai one of realism versus theatrical conventions.

Page 8* — I. comédieSy hère probably used in its wider sensé of plays in gênerai. This judg^ent of Corneille by a contemporary and admirer of Racine is particularly interesting.

2. mœurs, customs of the people, Romans or others, depicted by Corneille.