The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr

by Madame de Maintenon; Duchess of Burgundy of Savoy Marie Adelaide; duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans

CONTENTS.

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Introduction by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve		[1]
Translator’s Note		[35]
CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME:
I.	Letters of 1695-1714	[39]
II.	Letters of 1714-1716	[64]
III.	Letters of 1717-1718	[94]
IV.	Letters of 1718-1719	[124]
V.	Letters of 1720-1722	[153]
CORRESPONDENCE OF MARIE-ADÉLAÏDE DE SAVOIE:
VI.	Letters of the Duchesse de Bourgogne	[182]
CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME DE MAINTENON:
VII.	Mme. de Maintenon and Saint-Cyr	[216]
VIII.	Letters to the Dames de Saint-Cyr and Others
	Others	[236]
IX.	Conversations and Instructions of Mme. de
	Maintenon at Saint-Cyr	[268]
X.	Mme. de Maintenon’s Description of her Life
	at Court; with a Few Miscellaneous Letters	[300]
Index		[323]

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LIST OF
PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS.

	Madame, Élisabeth-Charlotte, Princess Palatine, Duchesse
	d’Orléans	[Frontispiece]
	By Rigaud (Hyacinthe); in the Brunswick gallery. This is the
	picture Madame mentions in her letters; this reproduction is from
	the copy which she promised to send to her sister Louise, Countess
	Palatine; the original portrait is at Versailles.
Chapter		Page
I.	Saint-Cloud, Château and Park of	[42]
	From a photograph by Neurdin, Paris.
II.	Fontainebleau. Louis XIV. and Escort, hunting	[64]
	By Van der Meulen (Adam Franz); painted by order of the king;
	in the Louvre.
III.	Marie-Anne-Victoire de Bavière, Dauphine, Wife of
	Monseigneur, with her Sons	[96]
	The Duc de Bourgogne carries a lance; the Duc d’Anjou (Philippe
	V.) holds a dog; the Duc de Berry is on his mother’s lap; by Mignard
	(Pierre); in the Louvre.
IV.	Louise de Bourbon, “Mme. la Duchesse”	[124]
	By Largillière (Nicolas de); Versailles.
V.	Marie-Thérèse, Infanta of Spain, Wife of Louis XIV.	[154]
	By Velasquez (Diego Rodriguez da Silva y); in the Prado gallery,
	Madrid.
V.	René Descartes	[168]
	By Franz Halz; in the Louvre.
VI.	Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne	[182]
	Painter’s name not obtained; probably Santerre; in the Royal
	palace at Turin; photographed by permission from the original for
	this edition.
VII.	Madame de Maintenon	[216]
	Head of the portrait painted for Saint-Cyr by Mignard; now in
	the Louvre.
X.	Louis XIV. at Marly	[300]
	By Geuslain (Charles); Versailles.

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CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME,
ÉLISABETH-CHARLOTTE, PRINCESS PALATINE,
MOTHER OF THE REGENT.