The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1905
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
PREFACE
IN the volume entitled The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle I have tried to present the conditions of France during the period in which the ancient liberties of the people and the turbulent society which had abused its privileges suffered, in the one case death, in the other extinction.