A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 664 pages of information about A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 664 pages of information about A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6.

LIST OF WOOD-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Grand Monarch in his State Robes 9

Madame de la Valliere 10

Madame de Montespan 12

The Iron Mask 14

Bed-chamber Etiquette 15

Madame de Maintenon and the Duchess of Burgundy. 27

Death of Madame de Maintenon. 34

The King leaving the Death-bed of Monseigneur 36

Louis XIV. in Old Age 47

The Death-bed of Louis XIV 50

Versailles at Night 52

The Regent Orleans 54

The Bed of Justice 57

John Law 62

La Rue Quincampoix 68

The Duke of Maine 71

The Duchess of Maine 72

Cardinal Dubois 78

Peter the Great and Little Louis xv 82

Belzunce amid the Plague-stricken 96

The Boy King and his People 104

Death of the Regent 107

Louis xv 110

Cardinal Fleury 110

Mary Leczinska 121

Death of Plelo 130

“Moriamur pro rege nostro.” 142

Louis xv. and his Councillors 148

Louis xv. and the Ambassador of Holland 151

Marshal Saxe 154

Battle of Fontenoy 157

Arrest of Charles Edward 166

Dupleix 168

La Bourdonnais 170

Dupleix meeting the Soudhabar of the Deccan 174

Death of the Nabob of the Carnatic 174

Lally at Pondicherry 184

Champlain 190

Death of General Braddock 203

Death of Wolfe 209

Madame de Pompadour 215

Attack on Fort St. Philip. 218

Assassination of Louis xv. by Damiens 221

Death of Chevalier D’Assas 233

“France, thy Parliament will cut off thy Head too!” 249

Defeat of the Corsicans at Golo 256

Montesquieu 269

Fontenelle 274

Voltaire 277

The Rescue of “La Henriade.” 283

Arrest of Voltaire 298

Diderot 314

Alembert 317

Diderot and Catherine ii 321

Buffon 323

Rousseau and Madame D’Epinay 338

Turgot’s Dismissal 367

Destruction of the Tea 378

Suffren 413

The Reading of “Paul and Virginia.” 427

Necker Hospital 432

“There are my Sledges, Sirs.” 458

Lavoisier 465

Cardinal Rohan’s Discomfiture 470

Arrest of the Members 502

A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.

CHAPTER XLIX.——­LOUIS XIV.  AND HIS COURT.

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