olbert, Louvois; relation of the
king to them.

4. _The Women of the Court_--Louise de la Valliere, Madame de Montespan,
Madame de Maintenon.

BOOKS TO CONSULT--Guizot: History of France. De Nolhac: Versailles.
Heroes of the Nations Series: Louis XIV. A. Hassall: Louis XIV. and
Madame de Maintenon. Lady Blennerhasset.

Study everything relating to Versailles, to which Louis moved the court;
show pictures of the famous gardens, the fountain at play, the palace.
Read a description of some fete: describe the Grand Trianon and its
social life. Show pictures of Louis.

II--SOCIAL FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV

1. _Manners of the Time_--Court etiquette. Excessive fondness of the
king for it, and his strict insistence on it. Quote from the numerous
memoirs of the time, descriptions of the palace ceremonial (Madame de
Sevigne, Saint Simon, etc.).

2. _Amusements of the Court_--Receptions and functions. Fetes. Hunting.
Theatricals. Card games and gambling.

3. _Women of the Court_--The Queen, La Grande Mademoiselle, Madame de la
Valliere, Madame de Montespan, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Sevigne
and her circle. Dress of the time.

4. _Social Morals_--Distinction between the morals of the court and
those of the common people. Growing popular dissatisfaction, and its
later tragic consequences.

BOOKS TO CONSULT--Hassall: Louis XIV. and the Zenith of the French
Monarchy. Voltaire: The Age of Louis XIV. Guizot: History of France
(Vol. IV., particularly the last chapter).

A most interesting short paper might be prepared on the odd people of
the time: Scarron; The Man in the Iron Mask; famous fortune-tellers.
Show pictures of some of the court beauties, to illustrate the dress of
the women of the period, and also a cut of Louis in his wig and
high-heeled shoes, taken from any history of France.

III--PARIS UNDER LOUIS XIV

1. _The City_--Area and population as compared with those of to-day.
Show maps of both periods. Colbert: story of his life and his remaking
of Paris. The destruction of the old walls and the beginning of the
boulevards. Lenotre and his landscape-gardening (the garden of the
Tuileries). Laying out of the Places Vendome, des Victoires, du
Carrousel.

2. _Public Buildings_--The architects Perrault and Mansart and their
work. Description of buildings erected under Louis: the Invalides,
Bibliotheques du Roi and Mazarin, Academie, Gobelins, Comedie Francaise,
etc. Gates: St. Denis, St. Martin, etc. Quai