Contents -- Introduction -- Hellenizing Geography: Travellers in Classical Lands 1550-1800 -- France and the Transmission of Latin Manuscripts -- Resources for the Study of Ancient Greek in France -- Guillaume Budé: Philologist and Polymath. A Preliminary Study -- Erasmus and Paris -- Translations from Latin into French in the Renaissance -- François Rabelais -- Michel de Montaigne: The Essais and a Tacitean Discourse -- Plutarch's Lives -- Jacques Amyot and the Greek Novel: The Invention of the French Novel -- Under the Shadow of Socrates -- Legal Science in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Longinus' On the Sublime -- Classical Myth and Its Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century France -- The Epic in Sixteenth-Century France -- The Greek Anacreontics and Sixteenth-Century French Lyric Poetry -- Fables: Aesop and Babrius -- Drama -- The Classical Heritage in French Architecture -- Sixteenth-Century Book Illustration: The Classical Heritage -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.