INDEX.
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, 46;
letter to Mme. de Maintenon, 47;
Monsieur’s death, 48, 49;
her views of the Bible, 50, 51;
of Christianity, 52, 53;
the poverty of the people, 56, 58;
allusion to deaths of Duc and Duchesse de Bourgogne, 61;
her daily routine of life, 64, 65;
her portrait by Rigaud, 70;
collection of coins and medals, 55, 70;
grief at illness and death of Louis XIV., 70-72;
dislike to Paris, 72, 73, 74;
judgment on the king, 74;
determined not to meddle in affairs of State, 75;
the king’s death, 75, 76;
his will, 76;
no longer at Court, 77;
had won her husband’s regard, 85;
horror at her son’s marriage, 85;
“sister-pacificator,” 89;
her medals, 98-100;
her French spelling, 101;
why she would not interfere in State affairs, 106;
a German woman, 107;
prays for her son, 109;
asserts her ugliness, 118;
hatred of tobacco, 118, 119;
how she brought up her daughter, 120;
love for Saint-Cloud, 125;
anxiety about the regent, 131;
deplorable condition of the country, 133, 134;
recounts the distinguished talent she has known in France, 134;
her title of Madame, 143;
goes to installation of Abbess of Chelles, 148-150;
love for her illegitimate grandson, 151;
her roguishness as a child, 152;
rebuke to the Abbé Dubois, 154;
no state at Court, 156, 157;
her illness, 159;
her course of life after Monsieur’s death, 160;
reconciled by the king with Mme. de Maintenon, 161;
regard and interest for Louise de La Vallière, 162, 163;
nothing so wearisome as a sermon, 163;
her Bibles, 164;
her novel-reading, 165;
her failing health, 172, 173;
horror at the depravity of Paris, 174, 175;
increasing illness, 179;
goes to the coronation of Louis XV., 180;
her last letter, and death, 181.
Madame (Henrietta of England), 165, 166, 167.
Maine (Louis-Auguste, Duc de), 90, 100, 103, 126, 129, 133, 134, 138, 139, 177, 178, 268, 269, 274.
Maine (Anne-Louise-Benedicité de Bourbon-Condé, Duchesse de), 127, 130, 132, 133, 135, 138, 139, 177.
Maintenon (Françoise d’Aubigné, Mme. de), 47, 48, 57, 59, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 78, 82, 83, 87, 91, 103, 104, 105, 122, 124, 132, 133, 140, 182, 186, 192, 204;
Sainte-Beuve’s essay on her and on Saint-Cyr, 216-234;
portrait of her by a Dame de Saint-Cyr, 218;
her art of government, 219;
her ideal in Saint-Cyr, 226;
her precepts, 227-230;
happy only at Saint-Cyr, 231, 232;
her unconscious prediction verified, 233;
treated as a queen at last, 234;
letters to the Dames de Saint-Cyr and others, 236-267;
conversations and instructions addressed to the mistresses and pupils of Saint-Cyr, 268-299;
herself and Mme. de Montespan, 276;
and Mlle. de Fontanges, 277;
her description of her life at Court, 300-308;
letters to the Duc de Noailles, 308;
to the Princesse des Ursins, 308-310, 321;
to Mme. de Glapion, 309;
to Mme. de Dangeau, 310;
to the Duc de Beauvilliers, 320;
death of Louis XIV., 320;
her death, 321.
Maisonfort (Mme. de La), 223, 224.
Marie-Thérèse (The Infanta), wife of Louis XIV., 154-156.
Mazarin (Cardinal de), 78.
Monseigneur (Louis, Dauphin), 59-61, 94, 95, 183, 302.
Monsieur (Philippe, Duc d’Orléans), 47, 48, 57, 81, 82, 85, 89, 90, 97, 98, 160, 166, 167, 183.
Montespan (Mme. de), 124, 276.
Montpensier (Louise-Élisabeth d’Orléans, Mlle. de), Queen of Spain, 176, 178.
Nangis (Général de), 87.
Nassau (Comte de), 40.
Noailles (Cardinal de), 83, 84.
Noailles (Duc de), 308.
Orléans (Philippe Duc d’), Regent, 49, 54, 55, 60, 61, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 76-81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 101, 102, 103, 108, 109, 110, 125, 126, 128, 131, 135, 137, 140, 147, 148, 154-157, 170, 173, 180, 312.
Orléans (Françoise de Bourbon, Duchesse d’), 79, 80, 86, 88, 119, 120, 134, 135, 140, 154, 156.
Palatinate (The), 40, 41.
Pérou (Mme. du), mistress at Saint-Cyr, 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, 190, 191, 196, 197, 202, 207.
Savoie (Anne-Marie d’Orléans, Duchesse de), 191, 198-200.
Savoie (Jeanne de Nemours, Duchesse de), 192-196.
Siam (The King of), 55.
Soissons (The Comtesse de), 99, 118.
Spain (Marie-Louise d’Orléans, Queen of), 40, 41, 46, 178.
Spain (Marie-Louise de Savoie, Queen of), 49, 82, 170.
Stair (Earl of), 79, 132, 133.
Sweden (Christina, Queen of), 110, 111.
Torcy (J. B. Colbert, Marquis de), 92, 102, 175.
Translator’s Note, 35-38.
Ursins (Anne de la Trémouille, Princesse des), 67, 68, 69, 70, 134, 136, 310-321.
Vallière (Louise, Marquise de La), 162, 163, 314.
Valois (Charlotte-Aglaé d’Orléans, Mlle. de), 131.
Villars (Maréchal de), 98, 99.
Villeroy (Maréchal de), 321.
Wales (The Prince of), son of George I., 112, 113, 117.
Wales (Wilhelmina-Charlotte, Princess of), 67, 108, 112, 113, 115, 123.