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3. Describe the characteristics of the following works, and give the authors' names: Origines de la France contemporaine, Lettres à une inconnue, Causeries du Lundi, Mémoires d'outre-tombe.
4. Name some of the subsidiary titles in the following groups: Comédie Humaine, Les Rougon-Macquart, Batailles de la vie.
5. Describe the nature of the writings of some of the following authors: Rabelais, Molière, Béranger, Bossuet, Bungener, Ribot, Amiel, Mme. Craven, Jules Simon.
6. Give a chain of dramatic authors in chronological sequence from Molière to the present time.
7. Under what reigns must we place the biographies of the following persons: Du Barry, De Berri, Pompadour, Montespan, Ninon de l'Enclos.
8. Name the writings of Napoléon III., Duc d'Aumale, Duc d'Orléans, Comte de Paris.
9. Under what other names may we look for catalogue entries of the following writers: D'Abrantes, De Raguse?
10. What authors would you recommend to a reader desirous of being acquainted with the lives of: (a) Napoleon I., (b) Louis XIV., (c) Marie Antoinette? (Avoid direct biographies of them.)