Cailhava, his "Art de la Comédie,"
I. 154, n.

Calas, Jean, inquiry into the injustice
of the condemnation of, II. 80.

Calonne, administration of this financier,
II. 304.

Calvin, John, his reproof of Rabelais,
I. 31.

Castro, Guillen de, the "Cid" of, I.
45.

Catherine II., her correspondence
with M. de Voltaire, II. 107.

Caumartin, M. de, II. 10.

Cavoie, M. de, I. 281. 317.

Chamfort, his éloge of Molière, I.
148.

Champmélé, mademoiselle de, celebrated
actress, I. 307.

Charles VI., the emperor, death of,
II. 42.

Chapelain, French poet and critic,
I. 47. 48. Character of, 262. His
poem of "La Pucelle d'Orléans,"
262. 263, n. Other allusions to,
301.

Chapelle, poet, education of, I. 99.
His good-fellowship, 115. 131. 132.
Allusions to, 216.

Chateauneuf, the abbé de, II. 5. 6.

Chateauneuf, marquis de, II. 7.

Châteauroux, duchess of, II. 44. 47.

Châtelet, marquis du, his castle of
Cirey affords a refuge to Voltaire,
II. 24. 26.

Châtelet, madame du, Voltaire's
intimacy with, II. 21. She learns
English of Voltaire, 25. 26. Her
literary taste, 25. 29. She revisits
Paris with Voltaire, 42. Visits
Sceaux, 48. Her death, 52.

Châtillon, duchess of, I. 217.

Chaulnes, duke of, governor of Britany,
I. 248.

Chaulnes, duchess of, I. 243. 248. 252.

Chavigni, duke of, I. 82.

Chevreuse, duchess de, favourite of
Anne, regent of France, I. 64. 65.
66. Is banished, 67.

Chimène, or Ximena, part of, critique,
I. 45. 46.

Choiseul, duke of, II. 81. 82. 101.

"Cid," the, of Guillen de Castro, I.
45. 101.

"Cinna," tragedy of, by Corneille,
I. 49.

Cirey, château of the marquis du
Châtelet in Champagne, II. 24. 27.
Voltaire's mode of life there, 28.

Clairon, mademoiselle, actress, II. 44.

Clement VII., pope, I. 25.

Clement XI., I. 367.

Colbert, minister of Louis XIV., I.
163. 166. 222. 287, n. 301.

Colletet, French author, I. 43.

Comedy, French: Corneille's "Mélite,"
I. 42. His "Illusion," 44.
His "Le Menteur," 51. Racine's
"Les Plaideurs," 53. See Theatre.

Condé, the great prince of, I. 53. 60.
Defeats the Spaniards at Rocroi,
67. Blockades Paris, 70. Is imprisoned,
70. And liberated by de
Retz and the Frondeurs, 73.
Joined by the Spaniards in the
south of France, 77. Quits Guienne
to join the forces of the duke of
Nemours, 78. Perilous journey,
79. Is opposed by Turenne, 80.
Contest between these great commanders
near Paris, 81. The Parisians
show great regard for him,
82. On occasion of a tumult and
partial massacre, he incurs their
hatred, 82. His admiration of
Molière, 113. 124. Further allusions
to, 278. 313. 327. 331.

Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine de
Caritat, marquis de, born in Picardy,
II. 175. His scientific works,
172. et seq. His examination of
the "Pensées de Pascal," 177.
Intimacy with men of science, 178.
Replies to Necker's book, 178. His
edition of Voltaire, and a life of
that author, 103. 178. Replies to
De Lolme on the English Constitution,
179. Character of Condorcet,
179. What share he had in the
French revolution, 180. Violent
speech of against monarchy, 182.
184. His political writings, 182.
184. 187. Supports in his speeches
the cause of liberty, 182. 184. 187.
Esteemed for his integrity, 184.
His metaphysical deductions, 185.
His enlarged views regarding
national education, 186. His vote
went to save Louis XVI., 188.
Denounced by Chabot, as an
accomplice of Brissot, 190. His
"Historical Sketch of the Progress
of the Human Mind," 190.
His views of human perfection,
191. His epistle in verse
to his wife, 192. He retires to
Chamont, 192. Is discovered, and
imprisoned at Bourg-la-Reine,
193. Dies of cold and hunger in
jail, 193. His character as given
by madame Roland, 193. His wife
escaped the dangers of the revolution,
194. She wrote some philosophical
works, 194.; and died
in 1822, 194. Mademoiselle de
Condorcet married Arthur
O'Connor, 194.

Conti, Armand de Bourbon, prince
of, I. 60. 68. Engaged in the civil
war on the side of the Fronde,
I. 60. 68. Holds out in Bordeaux
and Guienne for several years,
83, n. Educated in the college
of Clermont, 99. He patronizes
Molière at Pezenas, 105. 106. Allusions
to, 236.

Conti, the princess of, I. 286.

Conti, the prince of, entertains
J. J. Rousseau, II. 159. Affords
him a refuge, 162.

Corbinelli, M., account of, I. 256.
His wit, 237. His letters, 245.

Corneille, Pierre, the father of
French tragedy, I. 40. His parents,
40. His brother, Thomas
Corneille, also a dramatist of celebrity,
41. His sister Marthe,
mother of Fontenelle, 41. Taught
at Rouen by Jesuits, 41. His first
work, "Mélite," a comedy, 42.
Mediocrity of his first dramas,
42. Corrects the plays of Richelieu,
43. His associates in that
task, 43. He retires from Paris
to Rouen, 43. His poems to madame
Du Pont, 43. His "Medée"
unsuccessful, 44. "Illusion," a
comedy, 44. His genius fires with
the study of Spanish dramas, 44.
Reads the "Cid" of Guillen de
Castro, 45. Corneille's drama of
the "Cid," 45. 46. 101. Its plot
and action, 101. Its renown, 47.
Critique of the "Cid," by the Académie
Française, 47. 48. Richelieu's
observations thereon, 48.
Corneille's tragedy of "Horace,"
48. His tragedy of "Cinna,"
49. "Polyeucte," 50. His
comedy of "Le Menteur," 51.
"Rodogune," 52. Ill success of
"Don Sancho," "Theodore,"
and "Pertharite," 52. His "Essays
on the Theatre," 54. His
translation of the "Imitation of
Jesus Christ," 54. Tragedy of
"Œdipe," 54. Its success, 54. His
genius afterwards unequal to his
former fame, 54. Pension granted
him by Louis XIV., 55. 60. Character
of the great dramatist, 60.
His fruitless attempts in later
tragedies, 56. His "Agesilas
and Attila," 57. His wife and
sister described, 56. Is established
in Paris, 56. Parallel of Racine
and Corneille, 57. "Berenice,"
a subject treated by both poets,
58. Corneille less successful than
his rival, 59. "Pulchérie," and
"Suréna," his last plays, 59.
Death of Corneille, aged seventy-nine,
59. Unison of his character
with his works, 59. Public applause
of the poet, 60. Eloge of,
by Racine, 61. A great-niece of,
adopted by Voltaire, 61, n. II. 78.
His sons, I. 61. Allusions to, 262.

Corneille, Thomas, dramatic author,
I. 41. Success of his "Timocrates,"
56. "Le Comte d'Essex"
popular, 56. He and his
brother Pierre marry the demoiselles
de Lamperière, 56. Harmony
of the Corneille family, 56.
Some quotations from, 43, n. 55, n.
59, n.

Corneille, Marthe, the mother of
Fontenelle, I. 41. 56.

Cotin, l'Abbé, his death hastened
by critics and satirists, I. 147.
Molière's attack on, 153, 154. Boileau's
satire on, 263.

Coulanges, Marie de, baronne de
Chantal, mother of madame de
Sévigné, I. 215.

Coulanges, Christophe de, abbé de
Livry, takes charge of his orphan
niece, madame de Sévigné, I.
215. His consolations afforded her
on the death of the marquis her
husband, 218. His death, 251.

Coulanges, M. de, cousin of madame
de Sévigné, I. 232. Lawsuit
of, pleaded by himself, 232. Dialogue
in verse by, 232, n. Impromptu
by, 235. His death,
235.

Coulanges, madame de, I. 232. Celebrated
for wit and beauty, 234.
339.

Couvreur, mademoiselle, death and
mode of sepulture of this actress,
II. 23.

Crébillon, dramatic poet, II. 43. 50.
A rival of Voltaire, 51. 57.

Cuspidius, Lucius, will of, I. 37.

D.

D'Alembert, M., proverbial saying
of, I. 163. Remarks of, 334. 336.
His éloge of Fénélon, 345, n. 369.
371. The Encyclopédie, II. 77.
His friendship with Condorcet,
176.

D'Angeau, marquis do, I. 58. His
fortune at play, 244, n.

Dauphin, the, son of Louis XIV.,
I. 334. 336, n.

Davenport, Mr., permits Rousseau
to occupy his house at Wotton in
Derbyshire, II. 160.

Denis, madame, niece of Voltaire,
II. 53. 55. 58. 69. 89. 98. 99. 105.

Descartes, his celebrity for science,
I. 185.

Desfontaines, the abbé, II. 31, 32.

Deshoulières, madame, her sonnet
on Racine's "Phèdre," I. 312.

Des Marais, bishop of Chartres, I.
342.

Des Marets, French academician, I.
47.

Devaux, M., II. 33.

Diderot, M., writes a large portion
of the Encyclopédie, II. 77. That
work was condemned by the parliament
and clergy, and suppressed,
77. Is confined at Vincennes
for publishing a pamphlet,
133. Visited by J. J. Rousseau,
133. High reputation of, 171.

Drama, the: France indebted to
Spanish tragic authors, I. 41. 45.
In comedy to Lope di Vega, 51.
The Greek drama not suitable to
modern times, 305. Voltaire's critique
on the tragedies of Sophocles,
II. 15. See Theatre.

Dubois, cardinal, II. 10.

Du Deffand, la marquise, letter
from Voltaire to, II. 89. 103.

Dumouriez, general, minister for
foreign affairs, II. 277. 278. 314.

Dupin, madame, II. 128. 129.

Duprat, chancellor, invades the
privileges of the faculty at Montpellier,
I. 27. The gift of tongues
an introduction of Rabelais to, 27.

Dupuis, M. and madame, II. 89.

Duverdier, the Bibliothèque Française
of, I. 39. His Prosographie,
39.

E.

Encyclopédie, by MM. Diderot,
d'Alembert, Voltaire, and others,
II. 77. 148.

Enville, duchess d', II. 81.

Epinay, madame d', II. 138. 143. 145.
164.

Etallonde, the chevalier d', II. 86.
107.

Euripides, I. 40.

F.

Fables of La Fontaine, I. 164. 178.
180. Gay's, 179. Anonymous
English fables imitated from La
Fontaine, 179.

Fayette, countess de la, her novel
of "La Princesse de Clèves," I.
84. Her taste and erudition, 85.
Friendship of the duke of Rochefoucauld
for, 85. 87. Her mansion
the resort of French literati, &c.,
231. Her portrait or character of
de Sévigné, 255.

Fénélon, François de Salignac de
la Mothe, born in 1651, I. 329. His
ancestry, 329. His education, 331.
Takes his degree at Cahors, 331.
The abbé Fénélon's sermons at
nineteen applauded, 331. His strict
attention to the sacerdotal duties,
332. His purpose of becoming missionary,
332. Louis XIV. desires
him to convert the Huguenots,
333. Is the pupil and friend of Bossuet,
335. Writes on female education,
335. His "Telemachus,"
337. 356. 371. Appointed archbishop
of Cambrai, 339. Is deceived
by the zeal and pretended
visions of madame Guyon, 340.
Declines approval of Bossuet's
condemnation of her, 343. Louis
XIV. did not like Fénélon, 345, n.
Exiled to his diocese, 346. 360.
His "Exposition des Maximes
des Saints sur la vie intérieure,"
344. The pope condemns the
book, 352. Controversy on this
subject among the great prelates,
344. 350. Fénélon's letters, 360.
His religious principles, 362. et
passim. Is visited by the duke of
Burgundy at Cambrai, 364. His
active charity, 365. Louis XIV.
becomes sensible of his unjust
treatment of this great prelate,
366. The archbishop's sickness
and death, 367. His character,
368. 370. His conversation, 368.
Ramsay, a Scottish baronet, describes
his habits and disposition,
369. 370. His dialogues on eloquence,
372. Political views in
his "Telemachus," 373.

Fénélon, marquis de, I. 331. 367.

Ferney, château of, Voltaire's seclusion
at the, II. 76. Visitors to,
90. Marmontel, 91. Countess de
Genlis, 96.

Ferney, village of, II. 101.

Fleuri, cardinal de, II. 32. 42. 44.
His death.

Fleury, abbé de, sous-précepteur
of the princes, I. 336.

Fontaine, see La Fontaine, I. 150.
&c.

Fontenelle, nephew of Corneille, I.
41. Observations by, on La Fontaine,
178.

Fouquet, minister of finance, incites
Pierre Corneille to write
"Œdipe," a tragedy, I. 54. His
mistake in entertaining his monarch
too sumptuously, 111. Offends
mademoiselle de la Vallière.
112. Louis XIV. restrains his
anger during the fête given by
the financier, 113. His disgrace,
162. Is brought to trial, 222.
Imprisoned in Pignerol until his
death in 1680, 224. His correspondence
seized, 224.

France, the civil war between Catholics
and Huguenots, I. 11.
Consequences of civil war, the
rise of statesmen and warriors,
and next of poets and authors,
41. Events on the death of Louis
XIII., 64. Corruption of manners,
67. Condé and Turenne
defeat the Spaniards, 67. Broils
and adventures in the contest of
the Fronde against Mazarin and
the court, 70. 75. The kingdom
suffers in commerce, learning,
arts and sciences; and demoralization
a further consequence of
civil war, 77. Licentiousness
resulting from the war, 104.
French manners liable to ridiculous
interpretation, 109. Molière
lashes these foibles, 109.
Anecdotes descriptive of the state
of society, 171. 217. 230. II. 45.
Literature not good at the commencement
of Louis XIV.'s
reign, I. 262. War of the Spanish
succession, 362. Invasion of
Flanders, 364. The nation vain,
and fond of glory, II. 21. Intolerance
of the clergy of, 99. 108.

Franceuil, M., his friendship for
J. J. Rousseau, II. 128. 129. 135.

Francis I., court of, I. 27. 30. He
protects Rabelais against the Sorbonne,
32.

Franciscan order, the, I. 24.

Frederic the Great, king of Prussia,
his correspondence with Voltaire,
II. 35. He visits Strasbourg,
39. Voltaire's interview with
Frederic at the castle of Clèves,
39. Description of the monarch,
39. 41. He attacks the principles
of Machiavelli, 40. He seizes on
Silesia, 42. Concludes peace with
the empress Maria Theresa, 46.
Negotiations with France, 47.
The king welcomes Voltaire to
Potsdam, and grants him a place
and a pension, 57-65. Appoints
Maupertuis, president of the Royal
Academy, 54. Refuses permission
to Voltaire to quit his service,
67. Their interview, 67.
Reconciliation effected, 68. Frederic
sends to Voltaire at Frankfort
for a volume of the king's
poems, 69. Voltaire's arrest until
he can receive the volume left
at Leipsic, 69. Frederic defeated
in battle, addresses an epistle in
verse to Voltaire, 73. He gains
two victories, 74. His opinion of
Voltaire's powers of conversation,
90. Invites J. J. Rousseau to
Berlin, 157.

French language: affected and extravagant
style of Mlle. de Scudéri
and others of the Hôtel
Rambouillet, I. 107. 108.

Fronde, civil war of the, described,
I. 68. &c. Great men of this party
enumerated, 69. The new and
old Fronde, 74. Character of
the times of the Fronde, 95. 96.
See Life of Rochefoucauld.

Furetière, abbé, his Dictionary, I.
168. Anger of against the French
Academy, 168.

G.

Galen, edition of, by Rabelais, I. 26.
28. "Ars Medicinalis" of, 37.

Galileo, his investigation of atmospheric
laws, I. 191.

Gallanous, Peter, controversy of
respecting Aristotle, I. 31.

Gamache, viscountess de (Eléanore
de Montaigne), I. 21.

"Gargantua, the Giant, and Pantagruel,"
of Rabelais, I. 31. Supposed
personages pourtrayed in,
32. Editions thereof, 38.

Gascony and Guienne, character of
the people of, I. 1.

Gassendi, astronomer and mathematician,
instructs Chapelle and
Molière, I. 99.

Gaussin, Mademoiselle, celebrated
and beautiful actress, II. 22.

Gauthier Garguille, excellent comedian,
I. 101.

Gay's Fables, comparison of La
Fontaine's with, I. 179.

Geneva, residence of "Les Délices"
acquired by Voltaire near to,
II. 71. 74.362 75. Quits it for the
château de Ferney, on the adjacent
French territory, 76. Rousseau's
early years passed at
Geneva, 112. Kind reception of
him at a later period by his
countrymen, 137. Voltaire and
d'Alembert desirous of softening
the tone of society in, by establishing
dramatic, representations,
149. Rousseau replies to
their article for that object in the
Encyclopédie, 149. Ferment at,
in which the writings of Rousseau
were concerned, 157.

Genlis, countess de, narrates her
visit to Voltaire at Ferney, II. 94.
Rousseau offended by, 167.

Gex, town of, II. 100.

Gibbon, Edward, esq. the historian,
an admirer of mademoiselle
Churchod, the mother of madame
de Staël, II. 296. 305.

Gilbert, tragedy of "Rodogune" by,
I. 53.

Ginguené, M., criticisms of, I. 34.

Goldsmith, Oliver, opinions relative
to his conversation, I. 182.

Gournay le Jars, Marie de, I. 20.
Publishes the Essays of Montaigne,
who had treated her as a
daughter by adoption, 21.

Gourville, secretary to de la Rochefoucauld,
I. 67. 70. 78. 79. His
Memoirs referred to, 84. 120.

Graffigny, madame de, II. 26. 30. 33.

Grammont, count de, espouses
miss Hamilton, I. 119.

Greek, Rabelais familiar with, I. 38.

Greek tragedy, unities of the,
I. 45. 49. 52.

Grignan, count de, his marriage,
I. 227. Praise of him by madame
de Sévigné, 227. He repairs to
Provence as lieutenant-governor,
228.

Grignan, countess de, daughter of
madame, de Sévigné, educated
by her mother, II. 218. Is presented
at court, 225. Appeared at the
fêtes of Versailles, 226. Her
beauty celebrated by Benserade,
226. Accepts the hand of the
count de Grignan, a widower,
227. Accompanies her husband
to Provence, 228. Portraiture of
the countess, 229. Visits of madame
de Sévigné to her in Provence,
228. 241. Madame de
Grignan attends her mother in
Paris when ill, 245. But returns
to Provence herself in ill health,
246. Renewed journeys to see
her mother, and to Provence, 246.
247. 249. Her children, 248. Is
on terms of affection with her
mother, 250. Attended in sickness
by her mother, 254.

Grignan, marquis de, their son, I.
230, n. 250. 251. 254. 258.

Grignan, chevalier de, an uncle,
I. 246. His family, 246. 247.

Grignan, Pauline de, daughter of
the countess, I. 248, n. 251. She
marries the marquis de Simiane,
254. 258.

Grimm, baron de. Correspondence
of, I. 63. II. 103. J. J. Rousseau's
friendship for, 144. Account of
the baron, 145. His report as to
Rousseau, 164. 171.

Gros Guillaume, comedian, I. 101.

Gros René, comedian, I. 102.

Gros René, madame, actress, I. 102.

Guibert, count de, II. 98.

Guise, duke of, assassinated at Blois,
I. 11.

Guyon, madame, enthusiasm or
mysticism of, I. 340. et seq. Her
fervour occasions the disgrace of
Fénélon, 342. He speaks in her
cause to Bossuet, 342. Her party
punished, 343.