CHAPTER XI. FRENCH PROSE-WRITERS OF THE LATER SIXTEENTH

CENTURY.

Abundance of later sixteenth-century prose--A distinction--Sully--Bodin--The great memoir-writers--Carloix--La Noue--D’Aubigné--Monluc--Brantôme--The _Satyre Ménippée_--Its origin--Its authors--Its form and spirit--Montaigne--His _Essays_--The scepticism of Montaigne--His style--Charron and Du Vair 326