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The general topic of the eight Hyde Lectures to be given by M. Lefranc next spring will be "La Litterature Francaise de la Renaissance." Although the lectures will be given in connection with French 6 and French 6c, they will be open to all members of the University. All of the series will be given in Emerson A at 10 o'clock; the dates and subjects of the individual lectures follow:
Tuesday, March 30--Les origines et les commencements. L'humanisme et l'erudition. L'influence italienne. L'art et le sentiment de la beaute. Decouverte de la nature. Francois I et sa cour.
Thursday, April 1--La vieille poesie francaise. Marguerite de Navarre. Saint Gelais et la poesie de cour.
Saturday, April 3--Les romans, les contes, et les nouvelles. Les romans de chevalerie. Esquisse de la vie urbaine et de la vie rurale au seizieme siecle. La litterature vecue.
Tuesday, April 6--Rabelais: sa vie; son genie; ses oeuvres; son influence. Portee du Pantagruelisme. Rapports de Gargantua et du Pantagruel avec les evenements contemporains.
Thursday, April 8--La litterature et les moeurs. L'influence feminine. La sociabilite francaise. La conversation. L'ecole lyonnaise.
Saturday, April 10--Ronsard et la Pleiade. Le paganisme. La mythologie. L'italianisme.
Tuesday, April 13--Calvin et la reforme. Le christianisme et la Renaissance.
Thursday, April 15--La science. Les philosophers et les moralistes. Resultates generaux de la renaissance. Son influence sur la civilisation francaise.
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