Death of Gustavus and his Page----290

The Palais-Cardinal----305

The Tomb of Richelieu----308

Descartes at Amsterdam----316

The King's Press----323

Peter Corneille----334

The Representation of "The Cid."----335

Corneille at the Hotel Rambouillet---342

Louis XIV.----344

The Great Conde----348

Arrest of Broussel----352

Cardinal de Retz----352

"Ah, Wretch, if Thy Father Saw Thee!"----354

President Mole----355

The Great Mademoiselle----373

Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin----394

Death of Mazarin.----399

Fouquet----404

Colbert----405

Vaux Le Vicomte----405b

Louis XIV. Dismissing Fouquet----407

Louvois----411

William III., Prince of Orange----434

The Brothers Witt----436

Death of Turenne----443

Turenne.----444

An Exploit of John Bart's----446

Duquesne Victorious over Ruyter--446a

Marshal Luxembourg--461

Heinsius----461

Battle of St. Vincent 465a

The Battle of Neerwinden----465

"Here is the King of Spain."----475

News for William III.----481

Bivouac of Louis XIV.----503

The Grand Dauphin----505

Marshal Villars and Prince Eugene----512

Marly----525

Colonnade of the Louvre 525a

Versailles--526

Vauban----534

Misery of the Peasantry----543

The Torture of the Huguenots--552

Revocation of the Edict Of Nantes----556

Death of Roland the Camisard----569

Abbey of Port-Royal----580

Reading the Decree 581

Bossuet----591

Blaise Pascal----597

Fenelon and the Duke of Burgundy----610

La Rochefoucauld and his Fair Friends----629

La Bruyere----633

Corneille Reading to Louis XIV.----642

Racine----646

Boileau-Despreaux----650

La Fontaine, Boileau, Moliere, and Racine----657

Moliere----664

Death of Moliere----669

Lebrun----674

Le Poussin and Claude Lorrain----675

Lesueur----676

Mignard 677

Perrault 678

1715 to 1789
CHAPTER XLIX. LOUIS XIV. AND HIS COURT.
CHAPTER L. LOUIS XIV. AND DEATH. 1711-1715.
CHAPTER LI. LOUIS XV., THE REGENCY, AND CARDINAL DUBOIS. 1715-1723.
CHAPTER LII. LOUIS XV., THE MINISTRY OF CARDINAL FLEURY., 1723-1748.
CHAPTER LIII. LOUIS XV., FRANCE IN THE COLONIES. 1745-1763.
CHAPTER LIV. LOUIS XV., THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR.
CHAPTER LV. LOUIS XV., THE PHILOSOPHERS.
CHAPTER LVI. LOUIS XVI., MINISTRY OF M. TURGOT. 1774-1776.
CHAPTER LVII. LOUIS XVI., FRANCE ABROAD.--UNITED STATES' WAR
CHAPTER LVIII. LOUIS XVI., FRANCE AT HOME.--MINISTRY OF M. NECKER.
CHAPTER LIX