INDEX
Academy, French, 91
Addison, at Blois, 87,88
——compared with La Bruyère, 87
d'Ailly, Abbé, 22
Aix in Provence, 100
Alençon, 155
Allard, Jean, 136-138
Alsace, 162
Alsace-Lorraine, 132
Amelot, 118
Amyot, Jacques, 99
Anne of Austria, 11, 13
Anne of England, 88
Apemantus, 6
Argonne, the, 157
d'Argonne, Bonaventure, 61 n.
Arnauld (d'Andilly), 22
Augustine, St., 43
Barbier, Auguste, 150
Barrès, M. Maurice, xiii, xv, 153
Belgium, 146
Bellay, Joachim du, 148
Belle-Isle, Marshal de, 106-107
Belmont, the brothers, 140, 161, 162
Berkeley, Bishop, 125
Besnard, H A., 155
Blair's "Grave," 110
"Blue Room," the, 8
Bohemia, the campaign in, 98, 107, 109, 112
Bohemia, Queen of, 33
Boileau, xix, 47, 70, 82
Bordeaux, M Henri, 139, 157, 162
Bossuet, Antoine, 92
Bossuet (Bishop),35, 44, 47, 61, 62, 76, 91, 101 n. 110, 116
Bouillon, Godefroi de, 58
Bourbon, Duc de, 61
Brillon, 55
Brooke, Rupert, 131, 164
Brunetière, Ferdinand, 32 n.
Buckingham, Duke of, 11
Budgell, Eustace, 88
Burney, Fanny, 62
Bussy-Rabutin, 45, 70
Caen, 59, 60, 64
Calvin, 106
Casaubon, 70
"Chambre des Sublimes," 47
Champagne, 139
"Chanson de Roland," 132, 135
Chateaubriand, 153
Châtelet, Mme du, 112
Chevreuse, Mme de, 14
Choudens, Jacques de, 164-6
Clapiers, Luc de, 99 see Vauvenargues
Coleridge, his "Table-Talk," 29
Commune, the, 121 n.
Condé, Prince de (the Grand Condé), 19, 61, 63, 64
Consenvoye, 152
Conti, Prince de, 14
Corneille, Pierre, 123, 124, his "Pulchérie," 48
Cousin, Victor, 32
Cromwell, Oliver, 129
Decourcelle, M. Pierre, 138
Descartes, 33, 122, 125
Détanger, Capt E J., 151, 152
Drouet, Marcel, 151-154
Dupont, Marcel, his "En Campagne," 143
Duryer, his tragedy of "Alcyonée," 18
Dyke, Daniel, his "Mystery of Self-deceiving," 28
Egra, 107
d'Enghien, Henri Jules, Duc, 63
Esprit, Jacques, 30-32, 50 n
Fénelon, 35, 91, 101 n.
Fontenelle, 61, 69 n.; described as "Cydias", 68
Fresnes, Château de, 36
Fronde, the, 13, 20, 24
Fuller, Thomas, 28, 74
Gilbert, 109
Gourville, 18
Grenfell, Julian, 131, 164
Grenoble, 162, 163
Grignan, Mme de, 39 n, 48
Guastalla, victory at, 102
Guienne, 15
Guillot, Léon, xv
Guyon, Mme, 91
Haldane, Lord, quoted, 149, 174
Halifax, Earl of, 77, 78
Haraucourt, M.E., 141
Hassler, Capt, his "Ma Campagne", 166
d'Hautefort, Mlle, 11
Helvétius, 42
Hobbes, his "Leviathan," 33, 34
Huet, Bishop of Avranches, 37
Jansenists, 27, 33, 127
Jeandelincourt, 141
Jesuits, 33
Johnson, Dr., 88
Jouy, Ernest, 28
Kipling, Rudyard, 152, quoted, 90
Konrad, the monk, 135-6
La Bruyère, 55-93; birth and parentage, 58; La Bruyère at Chantilly, 64; contrasted with La Rochefoucauld, 57, described as "Ménippe," 65, in the House of Condé, 65, 90, at Fontainebleau, 64, Paris, 64; at Versailles, 64; his "Caractères," 55-57; 66-72, 76, 78, 83, his "Dialogues," 92
La Bruyère, Louis, 58
La Fayette, Mme de, 36, 37, 39, 45, 46, 48-50
La Fontaine, 47; "Fables" of, 49 n
Lagrange, Henri, xiv
Lamb, Charles, 58
Lantil, Léo, 139
La Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 3-52, birth and descent, 8, 9; marriage,
10; his "Letters," his "Maximes," xvi, 4-6, 33,47, 51, 52, 57, his
"Mémoires," 9-17, 21, 23-25; his portrait by himself, 22-25 by
Petitot, 19, by Cardinal de Retz, 17
Lauzun, Duc de, 80
La Vergne, Marie de, see La Fayette, Mme de
Lille, 164
Lintier, Paul, 3, 4, 131, 140-149, 163, 169
Lister, Charles, 164
Locke, John, 74, 124, 126
Longeville-les-Metz, 147
Longueville, Mme de, 14, 18, 39 40 n
Lorraine, 146
Loti, Pierre, 152
Louis XIII, 8, 9, 13, 14
Louis XIV., 84
Louis XV, 84, 117, 123
Luxembourg (Palace), 23, 64
Lyons, 141, 155
Mademoiselle, La Grande, 17, 23
Maeterlinck, M., 160
Magne, M., Emile, 63
Mahon, Col Patrice, 151
Maine, Duc du, 46,47
Maine, Duchesse du, 116
Maintenon, Mme de, 46
Malebranche, 122
Malizian, 70
Manceau, Col. Emile, 149
Mandeville, Bernard, 42, 126
Marcillac, Prince de, 11, 12, 47, see La Rochefoucauld
Mirabeau, Marquis de, 100, 103-105
Molière, 48
Nolly, Émile; see Détanger
Paléologue, M., 105, 169
Paris, Gaston, 135
Parma, French victory at, 102
Pascal, xviii, 22, 23, 32, 33, 35, 55, 81, 113, 115, 122, 127, 128
Péguy, 146
Petitot, 19
Phélippeaux, Abbé, 87, 88
Picq, Col. Ardent du 147, 148
Pierrepont, 136
Pin, Abbé Elliès du, 92
Plessis, Mme du, 36
Plutarch's "Lives," 99, 100
Pompadour, Mme de, 114
Port Royal, 22, 23, 27, 28, 36, 86
Prague, capture of, 107
Quercy, 155
Quimper,157, 158
Racine, xix, 35, 47, 122, 123
Rambouillet, Hôtel de, 7
Regnier, Henri, 20
Retz, Cardinal de, 10, 16, 17
Revue Critique, 150
Rhine, Passage of the, 40 n.
Richelieu, 10-12, 14
Roë, Art, see Mahon
Rousseau, J.J., 38
Ruffec, 19
Sablé, Mme de, 4, 5, 21, 23, 29, 31, 32. 36, 41 n.
Saint-Antoine, Faubourg, 18
Saint-Cyr, 137
Saint-Simon, quoted, 79, 91
Schomberg, Duchesse de, 7
Scudery, Mlle de, 39, 45
Sedan, 153
Segrais, 35, 50 n
Séguier (Chancellor), 30
Seneca, 43
Seven Years War, 106
Sévigné, Mme de, 34, 39 n, 40 n, 45 n, quoted, 48-50
Seyres, Hippolyte de, 107-110
Shaftesbury, Third Earl, 126
Shakespeare, quoted, 6, 30
Singlin, Antoine, 22
Société des Gens de Lettres, 138
Spectator, the, 88, 89
Spinoza, 33
Steele, Sir Richard, 89
Stephen, Sir Leslie, 34
Stevenson, R.L., 78, 101, 165
Suard, 99, 121
Sully, 129
Tailly-sur-Meuse, 143, 148
Tallemont des Réaux, 22
Temple, Sir William, 118, 126
Theophrastus, 69-71, 88
Thiange, Mme de, 46, 47
Torquet, M. Charles, 165
Turin, 102
Valincourt, 64
Vauban, Sebastien de, 84 n.
Vauvenargues, Marquis de, 97-132; birth and parentage, 99-101; described as "Clazomène," 121; serves in the Bohemian campaign, 98, 107, 109, 112, in garrison at Arras, 113; in garrison at Metz, 106, 113, in Paris, 120, with Villars in Lombardy, 102; his "Éloge" on De Seyres, 109, his "Discours sur la Gloire," 109, his "Introduction à la Connaissance de l'Esprit humain," 124, his "Réflexions sur divers Sujets," 104, 117, 121, 127
Verdun, 144
Vernulius, 28
Verteuil, 19, 20, 48
Vigneul de Marville, 60, 61 n.
Villars, Marshal de, 102, 129
Violand, Camille, 151, 155-160
Virton, Battle of, 144, 157
Vivonne, Andrée de, 10
Voiture, 8
Voltaire, 40, 84, 101 n, 111-114, quoted, 33, 52, 75, 122, 123
Vouziers, 155
Young's "Night-Thoughts," 110