Part I : Interpretations of French humanism -- Introductions / Werner L. Gundersheimer -- Three interpretations of the French Renaissance / Henry Hornik -- Part II : French humanism and its urban setting -- Parisian life in the sixteenth century / N.M. Sutherland -- Paris from 1949 to 1517 - church and university; religious reforms; culture and the humanists' critiques / Augustin Renaudet -- Lyons and cosmopolitanism at the beginning of the French Renaissance / Lucien Romier -- Part III : French humanism and the printed book -- Printing in France and humanism, 1470-80 / Rudolf Hirsch -- What Parisians read in the sixteenth century / H.J. Martin -- Lyons and Geneva in the sixteenth century : the fairs and printing / Paul F. Geisendorf -- Part IV : French humanism, Christianity, and the pagan past -- The humanist idea of Christian antiquity : Lefevre d'Etaples and his circle / Eugene F. Rice, jr -- A re-evaluation of Hellenism in the French Renaissance / Linton C. Stevens -- Christian interpretations of pagan authors / Raymond Lebegue -- Part V : French humanism and the arts -- The ancient and the Gothic revival in French art and literature / Otto Benesch -- At Amiens : from the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation / Lucien Febvre.