Excerpt from Studies in the French Renaissance The paper on The Prose Romances of Chivalry appeared in French in the Revue zla seizieme Siecle for 1919; besides translating it I have carefully revised it. Rabelais and Geo graphical Discovery was contributed to the Modern Lan guage Review from 1906 to 1910. Rabelais and Henri II is practically new, only six pages having appeared before in French, in the Revue da seizieme Siecle (1907 and The first part of Rabelais and the Fifth Book, which relates to the Ile Sonante, was published in the M odern 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. 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.