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Excerpt from Studies in the French Renaissance All except two of the papers contained in this volume have appeared before in some form or another. But all have been revised, added to, and in some cases largely rewritten. The result is that nearly half the volume consists of new matter. The first paper, "The University of Caen," was originally printed in a volume entitled Fasciculus Joanni Willis Clark dicatus, in which many friends of the late J.W. Clark united to express their sense of his lifelong devotion to the cause of knowledge and the service of the University. My own contribution seemed a fitting tribute from an alumnus of Henry VI's twin foundations of Eton and Kings College, and I was pleased to find that one of the Rectors of the University of Caen was in many respects a prototype of our friend. He was not only Registrary of his University, but he was distinguished for his devotion to its interests; he gave freely of his books to its library; and he wrote a play for the students, in which he took the chief part. The paper on "The Prose Romances of Chivalry" appeared in French in the Revue du seizieme Steele for 1919; besides translating it I have carefully revised it. "Rabelais and Geographical Discovery" was contributed to the Modern Language Review from 1906 to 1910. "Rabelais and Henri II" is practically new, only six pages having appeared before - in French, in the Revue du seizieme Siecle (1907 and1916). The first part of "Rabelais and the Fifth Book," which relates to the He Sonante, was published in the Modern Language Review for 1906-7; in the second part I have examined the rest of the book. It is for others to determine how far I have solved the long-disputed question of Rabelais's authorship. The account of "Humanism under Francis I" is an expanded and practically rewritten version of an article in the English Historical Review(1900). Even now it does not pretend to be more than a sketch of a small part of a very large subject - the history of French Humanism - which still awaits its historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.