d'Orsay.

3. _Churches of the Day_--Val-de-Grace and the birth of Louis. St. Roch:
its erection and later connection with French history. Notre Dame and
its ceremonies. St. Denis and the royal tombs.

4. _Great Events in Paris under Louis_--Royal spectacles, executions,
mobs.

BOOKS TO CONSULT--Larousse (under the word Paris, for those who read
French). Hamerton: Paris in Old and Present Times. Hare: Walks in Paris.
De Amicis: Studies in Paris.

The subject of the dwellings of the common people of this time deserves
study: their bareness, absence of sanitation, water-supply, lack of
conveniences and utensils. Also, the people's employments, food, dress,
amusements, doctors and medicine and care of the sick and the relation
of the priest to the family: christenings, weddings, and funerals.
Material may be found in the histories, the encyclopaedias (particularly
Larousse), memoirs, the novels of Dumas, Dumas's Paris, etc.

IV--THE WARS OF LOUIS XIV

1. _The Foreign Relations of the Reign_--Mazarin and the Peace of
Westphalia. Death of Philip IV. of Spain and Louis's claim to the
Netherlands. League with Charles II. of England. Discuss the question
whether Charles was in Louis's pay. Opposition from William III. of
England.

2. _Enlargement of Army and Navy_--Harbors and ships of Brest, Toulon,
etc. Constructive work of Louvois and Vauban. Their theories of war. Are
they still held?

3. _The Foreign Wars of Louis_--Against Holland: Peace of Nymwegen. In
the Palatinate: Peace of Ryswick. War of the Spanish Succession: Peace
of Utrecht. Territories won and lost by Louis in these wars.

4. _The Two Wars of the Fronde_.

5. _The Great Generals of Louis XIV._--Turenne, Conde, Luxembourg,
Vendome.

BOOKS TO CONSULT--Martin: History of France. Hassall: Louis XIV. and the
Zenith of the French Monarchy. Mahon: History of the War of the
Succession in Spain. Fitzpatrick: The Great Conde and the Period of the
Fronde.

An interesting supplementary paper could be added to this program on The
Art of Warfare in the Seventeenth Century; describe the formation of the
army lines for battle; the equipment of the soldiers, the discipline,
the tents, the commissariat, the cannon, swords, and other arms; the
pay of the soldiers; their manners and morals; the relation of the
officers to the men. Some one battle may be described in detail to
illustrate the methods employed on the field.

V--LITERATURE (PART I)

1. _The Acad