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PDFDuchesse de Berry Drunk.—Operations in
Spain.—Vendome Demanded by
Spain.—His Affront by the Duchesse de Bourgogne.—His
Arrival.—
Staremberg and Stanhope.—The Flag of Spain
Leaves Madrid.—Entry of the
Archduke.—Enthusiasm of the Spaniards—The
King Returns.—Strategy, of
Staremberg.—Affair of Brighuega.—Battle
of Villavciosa.—Its
Consequences to Vendome and to Spain.
Volume8.
CHAPTER LV
State of the Country.—New Taxes.—The
King’s Conscience Troubled.—
Decision of the Sorbonne.—Debate in the
Council.—Effect of the Royal
Tithe.—Tax on Agioteurs.—Merriment
at Court.—Death of a Son of
Marechal Boufflers.—The Jesuits.
CHAPTER LVI
My Interview with Du Mont.—A Mysterious
Communication. —Anger of
Monseigneur against Me.—Household of the
Duchesse de Berry.—Monseigneur
Taken Ill of the Smallpox.—Effect of the
News.—The King Goes to
Meudon.—The Danger Diminishes.—Madame
de Maintenon at Meudon.—The
Court at Versailles.—Hopes and Fears.—The
Danger Returns.—Death of
Monseigneur.—Conduct of the King.
CHAPTER LVII
A Rumour Reaches Versailles.—Aspect of the Court.—Various Forms of Grief.—The Duc d’Orleans.—The News Confirmed at Versailles.—Behaviour of the Courtiers.—The Duc and Duchesse de Berry.—The Duc and Duchesse de Bourgogne.—Madame.—A Swiss Asleep.—Picture of a Court.—The Heir-Apparent’s Night.—The King Returns to Marly.—Character of Monseigneur. —Effect of His Death.
CHAPTER LVIII
State of the Court at Death of Monseigneur.—Conduct of the Dauphin and the Dauphine.—The Duchesse de Berry.—My Interview with the Dauphin.— He is Reconciled with M. d’Orleans.
CHAPTER LIX
Warnings to the Dauphin and the Dauphine.—The Dauphine Sickens and Dies.—Illness of the Dauphin.—His Death.—Character and Manners of the Dauphine.—And of the Dauphin.
CHAPTER LX
Certainty of Poison.—The Supposed Criminal.—Excitement of the People against M. d’Orleans.—The Cabal.—My Danger and Escape.—The Dauphin’s Casket.
Volume9.
CHAPTER LXI
The King’s Selfishness.—Defeat of
the Czar.—Death of Catinat.—Last
Days of Vendome.—His Body at the Escurial.—Anecdote
of Harlay and the
Jacobins.—Truce in Flanders.—Wolves.
CHAPTER LXII
Settlement of the Spanish Succession.—Renunciation
of France.—Comic
Failure of the Duc de Berry.—Anecdotes
of M. de Chevreuse.—Father
Daniel’s History and Its Reward.
