CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I— | [Tempted] | 1 |
| II— | [The Keeper of the Royal Conscience] | 13 |
| III— | [A Noble Resolve] | 20 |
| IV— | [The Sacrifice] | 27 |
| V— | [Monsieur le Grand] | 32 |
| VI— | [Death on the Scaffold] | 45 |
| VII— | [The End of the Cardinal] | 54 |
| VIII— | [The Queen-Regent] | 59 |
| IX— | [The Duc de Beaufort] | 70 |
| X— | [Midnight Visitors] | 84 |
| XI— | [The Two Duchesses] | 91 |
| XII— | ["Put Not Thy Trust in Princes"] | 102 |
| XIII— | [Charles Stuart] | 112 |
| XIV— | [The Ladies' War] | 122 |
| XV— | [Mazarin Played Out] | 128 |
| XVI— | [Louise de la Vallière] | 139 |
| XVII— | [The Convent of Chaillot] | 156 |
| XVIII— | [Fouquet, Superintendent of Finance] | 167 |
| XIX— | [Death and Poison] | 179 |
| XX— | [At Versailles] | 192 |
| XXI— | [Madame de Montespan] | 200 |
| XXII— | [Broken-Hearted] | 208 |
| XXIII— | [M. de Lauzun and "Mademoiselle"] | 220 |
| XXIV— | [A Fair Suitor] | 230 |
| XXV— | [Under a Couch] | 242 |
| XXVI— | [Signing the Marriage Contract] | 252 |
| XXVII— | [Plot and Counterplot] | 258 |
| XXVIII— | [The Royal Governess] | 268 |
| XXIX— | [Connubial Bliss] | 283 |
| XXX— | [Fall of De Montespan] | 293 |
| XXXI— | [Queen Maintenon] | 302 |
| XXXII— | [AT Marly] | 311 |
| XXXIII— | ["The End"] | 317 |