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