Chapter 26

THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE

Communication with Italy--Renaissance not sudden--Origin of the schools of France and Burgundy--Touraine and its art--Fouquet--Brentano MSS.--"Versailles Livy"--Munich "Boccaccio," etc.--Perréal and Bourdichon--"Hours of Anne of Brittany"--Poyet--The school of Fontainebleau--Stained glass--Jean Cousin--Gouffier "Heures"--British Museum Offices of Francis I.--Dinteville Offices--Paris "Heures de Montmorency", "Heures de Dinteville," etc.