ABSTRACT
IN SPITE of the researches of modern scholars a good deal of obscurity still surrounds the work and the lives of that group of men who were the pioneers of classical tragedy in France. In particular the career of Antoine de Montchrétien contains elements of mystery which have never been satisfactorily cleared up. Since so little is known of the man and of his work, the following small discoveries in connection with L'écossaise, Montchrétien's most celebrated play, may be of interest to students of that mysterious poet and economist.
