Berry (Charles, Duc de), 62, 210, 314.
Berry (Marie Louise Élisabeth, Duchesse de), 57, 77, 80, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122, 144, 146, 147, 148, 314, 318.
Bissy (Cardinal de), 84.
Bourgogne (Louis, Duc de), 86, 308, 313.
Bourgogne (Marie-AdÉlaÏde de Savoie, Duchesse de), 170, 172;
Sainte-Beuve’s introduction to her letters, 182-190;
letter of Louis XIV., describing her, 183, 184;
her appearance, 186;
she came of the race of the great, 186;
her letters, 187;
her levity, 187;
corrects herself, 187, 188;
did she have weaknesses of the heart? 188, 189;
her serious good qualities, 189;
mistaken charge of treachery, 189, 190;
description of her letters, 191;
arrival in France and first letter to her grandmother, 192;
letters from 1696 to 1712, 192-214;
her bad writing, 193, 194;
at the camp of CompiÈgne, 194;
letter to her father, 196;
to her grandmother, 197, 198;
to her mother, 198-200;
birth and death of her first child, 201;
grief at war between France and Savoie, 202;
letter to Mme. de Maintenon accepting rebuke, 204;
failing health, 204;
the Meudon cabal, 206;
letter concerning her from Duc de Bourgogne, 206;
letter to her father, 207;
the terrible winter, 208;
anxieties about the war, 209;
birth of the Duc d’Anjou (Louis XV.), 210;
marriage of Duc de Berry, 210;
letter to her father, 211;
disapproval of her father’s course, 212;
hopes of peace, 213;
failing health, 214;
death, 215;
Sainte-Beuve asserts she is only rightly known in the letters of Mme. de Maintenon and the Princesse des Ursins, 234;
her knowledge of all kinds of manual work, 284;
her thoughtlessness, 284;
her sweet docility, 294;
references to her in the letters of Mme. de Maintenon to the Princesse des Ursins, 308-320.
Brinon (Mme. de), 235, 238.
Buonaparte (Marie Anne de), 233, 234.
Buonaparte (NapolÉon de), 233, 234.
Cellamare (Prince), Spanish ambassador, 136.
Chamilly (Marquis de), 68.
Chelles (Louise-AdÉlaÏde d’OrlÉans, Abbess of), 131, 148-150.
ClÉrembault (La MarÉchale de), 181, 303.
Conti (FranÇois-Louis, Prince de), 44.
Conti (Marie-Anne, Princesse de), 46, 47, 94, 314.
Currency, inflation of the, 126.
Dauphine (Marie-Anne-Victoire de BaviÈre, Mme. la), 95, 96.
Denmark (Frederick IV., King of), 90.
Descartes (RenÉ), 164.
Duc (M. le), de Bourbon, 152.
Duchesse (Louise de Bourbon, Mme. la), 82, 83, 94, 152, 170.
England (James II., King of), 39, 50, 66.
England (Marie of Modena, Queen of), 50, 90, 91, 121, 122.
England (William III., King of), 41, 42, 45.
England (George I., King of), 66, 67, 79, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 152.
EugÈne (FranÇois-EugÈne de Savoie-Carignan, called Prince), 99, 100.
Fagon (Louis XIV.’s physician), 104, 260.
FÉnelon (Archbishop of Cambrai), 68, 223, 232, 320.
Fontaines (Mme. de), 235, 245, 254, 264.
Glapion (Mme. de), 224, 225, 235, 300-308, 309.
Gobelin (the AbbÉ de), 236, 243.
Guise (Élisabeth d’OrlÉans, Duchesse de), 41.
Hanover (Sophia, Electress of), 62.
La Chaise (PÈre de), 91.
Law (John), 127, 145, 146, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, 159.
Leibnitz (Gottfried Wilhelm), 79, 164.
Lorraine (Duc de), 113, 114.
Lorraine (Élisabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse de), 42, 45, 113, 114, 115, 117, 119, 120, 180.
Lorraine (The Chevalier de), 85.
Longueville (Mme. de), 125, 126.
Louis XIV., 46, 49, 51, 54, 57, 58, 65, 70-72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 81, 83, 88, 91, 92, 103, 107, 110, 124, 153, 154, 160, 161, 162, 183-185, 217, 218, 221, 230, 231, 237, 238, 239, 267, 284, 285, 286, 290, 291, 298, 299, 301-308, 309, 320.
Louis XV., 73, 74, 82, 100, 103, 180, 210.
Louvois (FranÇois-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de), 165, 282.
Madame (Élisabeth-Charlotte, Princess Palatine and Duchesse d’OrlÉans), too old on coming to France to change her character, 41;
accident in hunting, 43;
sentiments on marriage, 43, 44;
why she lived a solitary life, 45;
prophesies the war of the Spanish succession, 235, 242, 253, 256, 257, 261, 263.
Peterborough (Charles Mordaunt, Earl of), 65, 66, 169.
Polignac (Cardinal de), 84, 139.
Portsmouth (Duchess of), 69.
Pretender (The), James, “Chevalier de St. George,” 78, 79, 90.
Racine (Jean), 222, 223, 224, 232.
Regent (see OrlÉans, Philippe, Duc d’).
Retz (Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de), 165.
Richelieu (Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de), 87.
Richelieu (Louis-FranÇois-Armand Duplessis, Duc de), 141, 142, 144, 145.
Russia (Peter the Great, Czar of), 104, 130, 131.
Saint-Albin (The AbbÉ de), 150, 151, 177.
Sainte-Beuve (Charles-Augustin), his introduction to Madame’s correspondence, 1-33;
to the Duchesse de Bourgogne’s letters, 182-190;
essay on Mme. de Maintenon at Saint-Cyr, 216-234.
Saint-Cyr (The Institution of), Sainte-Beuve’s essay on it, 216-234;
its completed idea, 217, 218;
its foundation, 221;
first and tentative years, 222;
changes and permanent establishment, 224-230;
its existence after Mme. de Maintenon’s death and its final destruction, 233, 234;
Saint-Cyr, an episode in Mme. de Maintenon’s life, 234;
system and arrangement of classes, 235;
letters, conversations, and instructions of Mme. de Maintenon relating to it, 236-299.
Saint-FranÇois de Sales, 174.
Saint-Simon (Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de), 116, 173, 185, 186.
Savoie (Vittorio Amadeo, Duc de), 182,