HENRY CABOT LODGE Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY Associate Editor

The Best of the World's Classics VOL. VII CONTINENTAL EUROPE I

CONTENTS Vol. VII Continental Europe I

EARLY CONTINENTAL WRITERS 354 a.d. 1471 a.d.

ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE

IMPERIAL POWER FOR GOOD AND BAD MEN [1]

ANICIUS BOETHIUS

THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS [2]

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

A DEFINITION OF HAPPINESS [3]

THOMAS - KEMPIS

OF ETERNAL LIFE AND OF STRIVING FOR IT [4]

FRANCE TWELFTH CENTURY 1885

GEOFFREY DE VILLE-HARDOUIN

THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE [5] -1204

JEAN DE JOINVILLE

GREEK FIRE IN BATTLE [7]

AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE

JEAN FROISSART

THE BATTLE OF CRECY [8] -1346

PHILIPPE DE COMINES

OF THE CHARACTER OF LOUIS XI [9]

MARGUERITE D'ANGOULeME

OF HUSBANDS WHO ARE UNFAITHFUL [10]

FRANaeOIS RABELAIS

I GARGANTUA IN HIS CHILDHOOD [12]

II GARGANTUA'S EDUCATION [14]

III OF THE FOUNDING OF AN IDEAL ABBEY [15]

JOHN CALVIN

OF FREEDOM FOR THE WILL [16]

JOACHIM DU BELLAY

WHY OLD FRENCH WAS NOT AS RICH AS GREEK AND LATIN [17]

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

I A WORD TO HIS READERS [19]

II OF SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE [20]

III OF HIS OWN LIBRARY [21]

IV THAT THE SOUL DISCHARGES HER PASSIONS UPON FALSE OBJECTS WHERE TRUE ONES ARE WANTING. [22]

V THAT MEN ARE NOT TO JUDGE OF OUR HAPPINESS TILL AFTER DEATH [23]

RENE DESCARTES

OF MATERIAL THINGS AND OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD [25]

DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

A SELECTION FROM THE "MAXIMS" [26]

BLAISE PASCAL

OF THE PREVALENCE OF SELF-LOVE [29]

MADAME DE SEVIGNE

I GREAT NEWS FROM PARIS [30]

II AN IMPOSING FUNERAL DESCRIBED [31]

ALAIN RENE LE SAGE

I IN THE SERVICE OF DR. SANGRADO [32]

II AS AN ARCHBISHOP'S FAVORITE [33]

DUC DE SAINT-SIMON

I THE DEATH OF THE DAUPHIN [34]

II THE PUBLIC WATCHING THE KING AND MADAME [35]

BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

I OF THE CAUSES WHICH DESTROYED ROME [38]

II OF THE RELATION OF LAWS TO DIFFERENT HUMAN BEINGS [39]

FRANaeOIS AROUET VOLTAIRE

I OF BACON'S GREATNESS [40]

II ENGLAND'S REGARD FOR MEN OF LETTERS [41]

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

I OF CHRIST AND SOCRATES

II OF THE MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN [46]

MADAME DE STAEL

OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE [47]

VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND

IN AN AMERICAN FOREST [48]

FRANaeOIS GUIZOT

SHAKESPEARE AS AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZATION [49]

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

OF MIRABEAU'S ORIGIN AND PLACE IN HISTORY [51]

LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS

THE BURNING OF MOSCOW [52]

HONORE DE BALZAC

I THE DEATH OF PERE GORIOT [54]

II BIROTTEAU'S EARLY MARRIED LIFE [55]

ALFRED DE VIGNY

RICHELIEU'S WAY WITH HIS MASTER [56]

VICTOR HUGO

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO [57]

II THE BEGINNINGS AND EXPANSIONS OF PARIS [58]

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

THE SHOULDER, THE BELT, AND THE HANDKERCHIEF [59]

GEORGE SAND

LELIA AND THE POET [60]

Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge and Francis W. Halsey

Language: English

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