PREFACE

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED

The Origin of Chantilly; the Gallo-Roman Cantillius; the Seigneurs of Senlis; the Orgemonts; the Montmorencys; the Great Constable of France; he builds the Petit-Château; the architects Jean Bullant and Pierre des Iles; the fair Charlotte de Montmorency; Henri IV madly in love with her; the last Montmorency condemned to the scaffold by Richelieu; Chantilly becomes the property of the French Crown

The origin of the Condés; their adherence to the Protestant Faith; Eléonore de Roy, Princesse de Condé, a staunch Huguenot; the two brothers, Antoine de Navarre and Louis I de Bourbon Condé; Catherine de Medicis sides with Condé in order to counterbalance the ascendancy of the Guises; she succeeds in estranging him from his wife; severe censure of Calvin; premature death of the Prince de Condé; his son Henri de Bourbon succeeds to the title; he sends all his family jewels to Queen Elizabeth to help the Huguenot cause; Charlotte de la Trémoille his second wife; his death; his son Henri II is heir to the Crown until the birth of Louis XIII; he is imprisoned for political reasons by Richelieu; his release; Louis XIII on his deathbed gives back Chantilly to its rightful owners

The Duc d’Enghien; his mariage de convenance with Claire-Clemence; his attachment to Marthe de Vigeau; Richelieu appoints him General of the French army; the Hero of Rocroy; after his father’s death he assumes his title but is styled the Grand Condé; his victories at Fribourg, Nördlingen, and Lens; he puts down the Fronde and brings the boy-king Louis XIV back to Paris

The enmity between Mazarin and Condé; the latter and his brother Conti are arrested; the courageous efforts made by Claire-Clemence to liberate her husband; her flight from Chantilly; Turenne escorts her to Bordeaux where she is received with great enthusiasm; Paris clamours for the release of Condé; the Queen is obliged to send Mazarin with an unconditional order for this purpose; his entry into Paris; he expresses his gratitude to the Princess his wife; new difficulties arise; Condé’s alliance with Spain; he leaves France and goes over to the enemy

Condé is defeated by Turenne at Dunkirk; the Peace of the Pyrenees is signed; Condé is reinstated in all his rights; he returns to Chantilly and lives there in retirement; Le Nôtre lays out the gardens and park; Condé invents a hydraulic machine to receive the waters of the Nonette; Mansart arrives at Chantilly and begins his alterations to the old feudal castle

The marriage of the Duc d’Enghien with Anne of Bavaria; Claire-Clemence is neglected by her husband; her health breaks down; a mysterious affair; she proclaims her innocence; she is banished to the fortress of Châteauroux; great festivities at Chantilly; Louis XIV and his Queen Maria Theresa visit Chantilly

Louis XIV after the death of Philip IV of Spain asserts the Flemish rights of his wife; he suddenly declares war, and summons the Grand Condé and Turenne to lead the French army; Condé conquers Franche-Comté and the King makes Lille a French town; William of Orange inundates the whole of Holland to save it from invasion by the French; the Grand Condé is wounded; he returns to Chantilly; not yet recovered, he is summoned back by the King; Turenne is confronted by Montecucoli and meets his death near Salzburg; Condé by his brilliant operations preserves Turenne’s army and shuts out Montecucoli from Alsace, thus terminating this great campaign; Madame de Sevigné, Bossuet, Corneille, Racine, and Molière at Chantilly; death of the Grand Condé

Succession of Henri Jules de Bourbon; he carries out his father’s wishes with regard to Chantilly; he is succeeded by his son Louis III, who outlives him but a short time; Louis Henri de Bourbon inherits the title when only eighteen; he builds the great stables; Louis XV visits Chantilly and is magnificently entertained; the Prince de Condé is made Prime Minister of France in 1723; influence of the Marquise de Prie over the Prince; after her death he marries a princess of Rhinfeld; the young châtelaine of Chantilly is greatly admired by Louis XV; he pays frequent visits to the Château; his death; the succession of the infant Louis Joseph de Bourbon in 1740; he marries Charlotte de Rohan-Soubise; their only son Louis Henri Joseph marries at the age of sixteen a Princess d’Orléans; Marie Antoinette visits Chantilly as Dauphine; the Comte and Comtesse du Nord at Chantilly; a famous hunting party; Princesse Louise de Condé and the Marquis de Gervaisais; an able speech in Parliament by the Duc d’Enghien when only sixteen years of age; the Revolution breaks out; the Condés leave France

Chantilly deserted; the Château devastated and used as a prison for political offenders; the so-called Black Band razes the Grand Château to the ground; Chantilly becomes State property under Napoleon; the Prince de Condé head of the French emigrés; he and his regiment subsequently find refuge in Russia; his arrival in England; his simple home at Wanstead; the tragic death of the Duc d’Enghien; the collapse of the French Empire; the Prince de Condé returns to Chantilly; he restores his ancestral mansion, and dies; the last of the Condés selects his nephew, Prince Henri d’Orléans, as his heir

The Duc d’Aumale owner of Chantilly; Chantilly the French Epsom; the heir of the Condés at Algiers; his victory at La Smalah; his marriage with Princess Caroline de Bourbon, daughter of the Prince of Salerno; Chantilly the home of the newly married pair; their son and heir named Prince de Condé; Louis-Philippe pays a visit to Chantilly; the Duke takes the command of the French Army in Algeria; the Duc d’Aumale in exile; his home at Twickenham; death of his eldest son; death of the Duchess; the Duke returns to Chantilly after the fall of the Second Empire; sudden death of the Duc de Guise, his only surviving son; the architect Daumet undertakes to rebuild the Grand Château; visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Chantilly; the Republic pronounces sentence of banishment on all claimants to the throne of France; the Duc d’Aumale included in this decree; he returns to England; his home at Wood Norton; he publicly announces his intention to leave Chantilly with all its forests, parks and art-treasures to the French nation; President Carnot signs a decree that France will welcome him back; he returns to Chantilly amid great rejoicings of the people; the sculptor Dubois is commissioned to erect his statue at Chantilly

The Duc d’Aumale joins the ranks of the great European collectors; his pronounced taste as a bibliophile; he purchases the Standish Library in 1851; the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry are acquired in 1855; the Reiset Collection of 380 drawings is bought in 1861; an exhibition is organised at Orleans House; Disraeli’s speech; the first French drawings acquired from the Utterson sale; the Pourtales Vase and the Minerva; the Madonna of the Maison d’Orléans; the Sutherland collection of French drawings is purchased; the portrait of Antoine de Bourgogne; the Carmontelle Collection is added; the Reiset Collection of paintings acquired; Victor Hugo addresses a letter to the Duc d’Aumale on his election as member of the Institut de France; Raphael’s Three Graces purchased from the Earl of Dudley; over 300 French drawings are acquired from Lord Carlisle; the Duc d’Aumale makes his last important acquisition—the forty miniatures by Fouquet from the Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier

A note in the Inventory of the Duc de Berry mentions Pol de Limbourg and his brothers as the authors of the Très Riches Heures; Fouquet mentioned by François Robertet, Secretary to Pierre de Beaujeu Duc de Bourgogne; the Cabinet des Livres of the Duc d’Aumale; the Psalter of Queen Ingeburge; the Breviary of Jeanne d’Evreux; the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry discovered at a villa near Genoa

This work marks an important epoch in the history of French Art; the Calendar Months by Pol de Limbourg (the eldest brother); the scenes from the Life of Christ joint work of the three brothers; the Zodiac; the Plan of Rome; the Duc de Berry a collector of medals; his sudden death interrupts the completion of his Livre d’Heures; Jean Colombe, half a century later, undertakes the painting of the remaining miniatures; his mediocre workmanship

Court-Painter to Charles VII and Louis XI; inspired by the work of the Limbourgs; a similar inclination for landscapes in his backgrounds; Etienne Chevalier, Treasurer of France, his patron; the forty miniatures by Fouquet at Chantilly; Fouquet well known in Italy as a painter; commissioned to make a portrait of Pope Eugenius IV; mentioned by Vasari; his impressions in Italy shown in the miniatures at Chantilly and in the MS. of the Antiquitates Judæorum; his strong individuality; his sense of humour and other characteristics

Bourdichon’s name found upon cartridge-cases made out of old accounts and contracts; the Prayer-Book of Anne de Bretagne and its ornamentation of flowers; Perréal painter to the Duc Pierre de Bourbon; studies Fouquet’s work at Moulins; the miniatures of the MS. of St. Michel in the Bibliothèque Nationale attributed to Perréal by Durrieu; affinity between the angels in the MS. and those in the triptych at Moulins; why the original drawings of the Preux de Marignan are likely to be by Jean Perréal rather than by Jean Clouet; the handwriting of Perréal identified on the back of a drawing attributed to him; the Tournois tapestries; Perréal mentioned in the Royal Accounts as Architect and Sculptor; his medals representing Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and in the Wallace Collection

Migrates to France; settles at Tours; marries Jeanne Boucault; his portrait of Oronce Finé exists only in an engraving; his craftsmanship of a more elaborate nature than that of Perréal; the Duc de Guise and the unknown man at Hampton Court; his portrait of Francis I in the Louvre; Queen Claude and her sister Renée; numerous drawings to be attributed to Jean Clouet; his characteristics

Favoured by Francis I; he adheres at first to parental teaching; Mary Stuart in her girlhood by Germain le Mannier; Mary Stuart as Dauphine and as Queen of France; Francis II; Charles IX by François Clouet; his exquisite drawing of Margot de France at Chantilly; portrait of Pierre Quthe at the Louvre; the portrait of Odet de Coligny at Chantilly; Catherine de Medicis as a collector; her handwriting identified on the margins of drawings at Chantilly, and elsewhere; Corneille de Lyon and the Dauphin François; Jean de Court court-painter to Henri III; Carron and the brothers Lagneau; Daniel Dumoustier; his portrait of Henri, Duc de Guise; the Quesnels, court-painters to the first Bourbon Kings; the painting of Gabrielle d’Estrées and her two sons at Chantilly

Dr. Fagon by Mathias le Nain; Nicolas Poussin; his drawing of Daphne; Gaspar Poussin; Claude Lorraine; Mignard and his portrait of Molière; the portrait of Louis XIV by Rigaud; Largillière and his portrait of a friend of the Condés; he painted Liselotte as a Naiad; the Princesse de Condé, wife of Louis Joseph, by Nattier; Desportes and Oudry; a copy by Boucher of a portrait of Watteau by himself; the relations between Crozat and Watteau; Lancret adopts Watteau’s style; Madame Adelaide de France by Latour; the portrait of Georgette by Greuze; the small portraits of the Royal Bourbons and of the Bourbon Condés by Fragonard; Ingres; Delaroche and Eugène Delacroix; Descamps represented by no less than ten paintings; Fromentin’s Arab Chiefs hawking in the Sahara; Meissonier and his great pupil Detaille; Corot and the Barbizon School; the tomb of the Duc d’Aumale by Dubois

INDEX: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z