Presented to the LiBRARY ofthe UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO hy SybiDle Pantazzi : LONDON K. CLAY, SON, AND TAVLOR, PRINTRR!lîRKAI) STREET HILI.. LA LYRE FRANÇAISE (GUSTAVE MASSON. ITotibon MACMILLAN AND 1867. C O. [A// Rights reserried.] /M'a, TO G. F. HARRI S, ESQ., M. A. SECOND MASTER OF HARROW SCHOOL, THE PRESENT VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. GUSTAVE MASSON. PREFACE A MOROSE critic, with whom le pot-au-feu had probably disagreed, exclaimed one day, " Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit on le chante" We would say at once, and in the frankest manner, that the présent volume is intended as a protest If ever there against so gross a paradox. was a : singing race of people, it is certainly the French the lark, which in the days of bly as the crest diers,* Cœsar stood probasol; on the helmet of the Gallic was the aptest emblem of the whole nation and from the time of Vercingetorix to that of His Majesty Napoléon III. the merry songster has never ceased sending forth its strains throughout the world. In giving hère, however, a short account of the history of * French Unam cha?iso?i literature, I shall alias "Qua ficUicia, ad legiones quas a Repiiblica acceperat, privato suniptu addidit. etiam e Transalpinis conscriptam, voeabulo quoque Gallico [allaîtda enim appellabatur) quam ...
Presented to the
LiBRARY ofthe
UNIVERSITY OF
TORONTO
hy
SybiDle Pantazzi
:
LONDON
K.
CLAY, SON, AND TAVLOR, PRINTRR!lîRKAI)
STREET
HILI..
LA
LYRE FRANÇAISE
(GUSTAVE MASSON.
ITotibon
MACMILLAN AND
1867.
C O.
[A// Rights reserried.]
/M'a,