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Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652-1693

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The author reconstructs the royal court, tracing the evolution of a reserved monarch into a sovereign who outmaneuvers aristocratic resistance and redefines political authority. Seen largely through the life of a high-born cousin—her exile, salon gatherings, passionate liaison with a royal favorite, blocked marriage, and final seclusion—the narrative interweaves political crises, cultural flourishing in drama and music, courtly morality and libertinism, and architectural and administrative reforms. Detailed character studies and contemporary memoirs illuminate how personal temperaments, factional rivalries, and artistic patronage shaped private fortunes and contributed to the consolidation of centralized rule.

Montpensier, Mlle., Mémoires of, 3, 4, 8, 15, 23, 36, 45, 55, 59, 79, 97, 98, 102, 105, 106, 121, 125, 131, 136, 138, 143, 160, 169, 182, 210, 221, 222, 230, 238-240, 255, 256, 262, 269, 297, 305, 308, 315-317, 339, 347, 348, 350, 353, 356, 361

Montpensier, duchy of, 49;
given to Lauzun, 288

Montpensier, Henri de Bourbon, Duc de, 42

Montpensier, Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse, Duchesse de, 42

Montresor, Claude de Bourdeville, Comte de, 161

Montvoisin, Antoine, 206-208

Montvoisin, Catherine "La Voisin" the poisoner, 207, 208, 210, 212

Morale de Salomon, La, 127

Moret, mock siege of, 334, 335

Morin the Jew, 76

Mortemart, Mlle. de (Mme. de Montespan), 172

Motteville, Mme. de, 31, 49, 62, 66, 116, 135, 149, 150, 195;
Mémoires of, 73, 100, 104, 109, 112, 113, 116, 135, 149, 150, 154, 170, 190, 195

Mouchy, 199

N

Nallot, M. de, 310, 311

Nantes, Revocation of Edict of, 331, 374

Necromancy, 202-207

Négociations relatives à la succession d'Espagne (Mignet), 143

Nemours, Henri de Savoie, Duc de, 185

Nemours, Marie-Jeanne Baptiste de, 190

Nemours, the Mesdemoiselles de, 185, 190

Nesmond, Présidente de, 90

Nevers, Duchesse de, 347

Nimeguen, peace of, 331

Noailles, Duc de(Comte d' Ayen), 270

Noailles, Mme. de, 248

Nogent, Mme. de, 290, 327-329

Nolhac, M. de, La Création de Versailles, by, 176

Nouvelles Françaises, Les (Segrais), 8

Nuitter and Thoinan, Les Origines de l'Opéra Français, by, 213

O

Œillets, Mlle. des, 346

Œuvres complètes (Saint-Pierre), 365

Œuvres galantes en vers et en prose (Cotin), 223

Œuvres de Louis XIV. Lettres particulières, 188

Olivet, Abbé d', 222

Opera, Italian, birth of, 214-216;
French, 215, 216

Origines de l'Opéra Français, Les (Nuitter and Thoinan), 213

Orléans, city of, 33, 34, 39, 42, 49, 53

Orléans, House of, 35, 37

Orléans, Gaston, Duc d' (Monsieur), character of, 3, 23-25, 28-30, 44, 52, 97-99;
exiled to Blois, 24-33;
piety of, 29, 30;
children of, 31, 34, 37, 39, 42, 77, 97-99, 105, 106, 133, 134, 137, 138, 186, 235, 294;
pillages daughter's fortune, 35-37, 39-44, 168;
under Court protection, 38-40, 48, 49;
litigation of, with Mademoiselle, 37, 41-44, 51-54;
death and burial of, 101, 102

Orléans, Henrietta of England (Madame), wife of Philippe Duc d'. See Henrietta

Orléans, Marguerite de Lorraine (Madame), second wife of Gaston, Duc d', 24, 43, 191, 285, 286;
daughters of, 31, 34, 37, 39, 42, 77, 97-99, 105, 106, 133, 134, 137, 138, 186, 188, 235, 294;
character of, 101, 102, 121, 122, 133, 134

Orléans, Marguerite Louise, Mlle. d', daughter of Monsieur, 97, 98, 133;
marriage of, 137, 138

Orléans, Marie Louise d', daughter of little Monsieur, 277;
marriage of, 277

Orléans, Mgr. Duc d', 162

Orléans, Philippe, Duc d'. See Anjou

Ormesson, André d', 22, 48

Ormesson, Olivier Lefèvre d', Journal of, 48, 76, 118, 159, 174, 177, 186, 194, 197, 285, 287, 301, 331, 332, 335;
disgrace of, 118, 332

Ormond, Marquis d', 137

P

Palatine, Anne de Bavière, Princesse, 174

Palatine, Anne de Gonzague, Princesse, 106

Palatine, Elisabeth Charlotte de Bavière, Princesse (Madame), second wife of Philippe Duc d'Orléans, 62, 156, 315

Paraphrases des sept Psaumes de la Pénitence, 127

Paris, Archbishop of, 287, 288

Paris, King and Court return to, 2, 19-21, 24, 65, 110, 174, 281;
opinion of King in, 71;
committee of relief founded in, 87-93;
carnival in, 93, 94;
Queen's entrance into, 111;
commerce in, 142;
magic arts in, 201-206, 342-344;
bridges of, 206;
lampoons against Louis in, 335;
dungeons of, 347;
cradle of French revolutions, 370, 376

Parliament, the, Louis XIV. dictates to, 19, 20, 23, 76;
dictates to royalty, 68, 69;
petition to, 162;
decrees of, 167, 168;
privileges of, 371

Parma, Duc de, 189

Patin, Guy, letters of, 71, 113, 117

Pédagogue chrétien, 324

Pellison, Lettres historiques, by, 258

Péréfixe, Abbé de, 66, 67, 115

Perroquet ou Les Amours de Mademoiselle, Le 257, 282

Pertharite (Corneille), 80

Petitot, editor Mémoires of Louis XIV., 66

Phèdre (Racine), 224

Philip IV. of Spain, 103, 104, 142, 149;
interviews of, with Louis XIV. and Anne of Austria, 106-110;
death of, 173

Picardy, 87, 165

Pignerol, fortress of, 310, 311, 318, 319, 325, 329, 351, 355, 356, 358

Pimbesche, Countess of, original of, 36, 191

Plaideurs (Racine), 227

Plaisirs de l'Ile enchantée, 176

Poisons, Les (La Fontaine), 203

Poland, Marie de Gonzague, Queen of, and Port-Royal, 88, 92;
letters to, 117, 174, 175, 186

Polexandre (Gomberville), 11

Polignac, Vicomtesse de, 344

Pomponne, M. de, 293, 297;
La Correspondance de Pomponne, 297

Pont Marie, 206

Porchat, Jacques, and Miot, Histoire de France, tr. by, 99

Porte Saint-Antoine, heroine of, 3, 53, 59, 72, 370

Port Royal des Champs, 79, 88, 92

Port-Royal (Sainte-Beuve), 82

Portugal, independence of, threatened, 142;
King of, 143-145, 160, 185

Portugal, Queen of, 190

Précieuses Ridicules, Les (Molière), 124

Préfontaine, 33, 35, 36, 41, 43, 44, 50, 53

Princesse de Clèves (La Fayette), 153

Princesse d'Elide (Molière), 180, 216

Problêmes Historiques (Loiseleur), 63

Provinciales, the, 79

Provins, 84

Puyguilhem, Marquis de. See Lauzun

Pyrénées, peace of the, 2, 99, 100, 107

Pyrrhus (Racine), 224

Q

"Queens, the three," 233

Quinault, tragedies of, 80, 81, 216, 217, 220

R

Racan, Honorat de Bueil, Marquis de. See Barthélemy

Racine, Jean, tragedies of, 8, 81, 223-229;
and Corneille compared, 223-227;
King's appreciation of, 224, 227, 228

Racine, Louis, Mémoires sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de Jean Racine, by, 227

Rambouillet, Hôtel, 14, 224

Rambouillet, Mme. de, salon of, 123

Rampillon, 84

Ranke, Leopold von, Histoire de France, by, 99, 330

Rapin, Father, 181

Ravaisson, François, Archives de la Bastille, by, 201, 312

Ravetot, Marquis de, 211

Regent, the, 62, 372, 374

Reims, 55, 56

Reims, Archbishop of, 288

Relation de la Cour de France (Spanheim), 374

Relation des Divertissements que le Roi a donnés aux Reines, La (Marigny), 173

Relation de l'Ile imaginaire, La (Mademoiselle), 18, 132

Relations des Ambassadeurs Venitiens, 65

Relations of de Bernières, 87-90

Remerciement au Roi (Molière), 231

Retz, Cardinal de, 20, 24, 25, 113, 369, 377

Richelieu, 11, 25, 28, 30, 50, 55

Robert, Procurer-General, 344

Robespierre, 375

Rochefort, 287, 336

Roche-sur-Yon, 49

Rocroy, 101

Rodocanachi, M., Les Infortunes d'une petite-fille d' Henri IV., by, 138

Rohan, Marie-Eleonore de, Abbess, 126, 127

Roland furieux, 178

Rolland, Romain, Histoire de l'Opéra en Europe, by, 213, 220

Romecourt, 265, 266

Roquelaure, 148

Rosen, de, 84

Rousseau, Sieur, 293

Rousset, Camille, Histoire de Louvois, by, 364

S

Sainctôt, Mme. de, 131

Saint-Aignan, Duc de, 178

Saint Antoine de Padua, 205

Saint-Cloud, Château of, 54, 269

Saint-Cyr, 63

Saint-Denis, burial of Monsieur at, 102;
burial of Mademoiselle at, 366

Sainte-Beuve, Port-Royal, by, 82

Saint Evremond, The Operas, by, 218

Saint-Fargeau, Château of, Mademoiselle exiled to, 3-6, 36, 73;
Mademoiselle's Court at, 6-10, 12, 17-20, 129-131, 135;
Mademoiselle again exiled to, 147, 148, 160, 169

Saint-Geneviève MS., 257

Saint-Germain-des Prés, 73

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Court at, 173, 177, 239, 247, 258, 269, 310, 313, 318, 353, 354

Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Court at, 104, 108;
marriage of Louis XIV., at, 110

Saint-Joseph, Convent of, 234

Saint-Mars, Sieur de, 310, 311;
letter of, 313;
letters to, 318-321, 325-327, 329

Saint-Paul, Comte de (Duc de Longueville), 256, 257

Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 9;
Œuvres complètes of, 365

Saint Quentin, 263

Saint-Rémi, Jacques de Courtavel, Marquis de, 134

Saint-Romain, Abbé de, 143

Saint Sacrement, Compagnie du, founding of, 85-87, 93;
charitable work of, 157, 158;
nicknamed, 157;
disapproves of King's conduct, 157-159, 373;
blow aimed at, 181;
disorganisation of, 198, 199

Saint-Severin, Church of, 210

Saint-Simon, Duc de, at Court, 78, 116, 369, 370, 372;
Mémoires of, 116, 161, 209, 212, 234, 245, 255, 326, 353, 360, 366-368, 372;
Écrits inédits of, 354, 359, 363, 364

Saint-Sulpice, 73

Saint Vincent de Paul, character and influence of, 85;
joins Compagnie du Saint Sacrement, 87, 373;
head of relief work, 88-90, 157

Saint Vincent de Paul (Broglie), 82, 91

Saint Vincent de Paul et les Gondi (Chantelauze), 82

Salic law, the, 105

Sambre, the, 264

Savoie, Charles Emmanuel II., Duc de, marriages of, 99, 147, 185, 186, 190, 236;
revenges himself on Louis and Mlle., 189, 190

Savoie, Marguerite, Princesse de, Louis XIV. refused to marry, 94, 96, 189;
marries Duc de Parma, 189

Savoie, Victor-Amédée II., Duc de, marriage of, 277

Saxe-Jena, Bernard, Duke of, 125

Scarron, Mme. de. See Maintenon

Sceaux, 357

Scudéry, Madeleine, Mlle. de, 258, 302;
Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, by, 11, 125;
Saturdays of, 123, 124

Scudéry, Mme. de, 302, 342

Sedan, 55-59, 73

Segrais, Mademoiselle's secretary, 8, 9, 13, 134, 226, 286, 306, 307, 349;
Les Nouvelles Françaises, by, 8, 9

Segraisiana, 71, 279, 310

Seignelay, 363, 364

Seine, the, 206

Sévigné, Mme. de, 75, 80, 134, 177, 200;
letters of, 2, 11, 129, 217, 218, 225, 235, 287, 288, 307, 310, 337, 338, 345, 347, 362;
letters to, 248, 284, 364