A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES

By M. Guizot

[ENLARGE]

CONTENTS


[ CHAPTER XLIX.] LOUIS XIV. AND HIS COURT.
[ CHAPTER L.] LOUIS XIV. AND DEATH. 1711-1715.
[ CHAPTER LI.] LOUIS XV., THE REGENCY, AND CARDINAL DUBOIS. 1715-1723.
[ CHAPTER LII.] LOUIS XV., THE MINISTRY OF CARDINAL FLEURY., 1723-1748.
[ CHAPTER LIII.] LOUIS XV., FRANCE IN THE COLONIES. 1745-1763.
[ CHAPTER LIV.] LOUIS XV., THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR.
[ CHAPTER LV.] LOUIS XV., THE PHILOSOPHERS.
[ CHAPTER LVI.] LOUIS XVI., MINISTRY OF M. TURGOT. 1774-1776.
[ CHAPTER LVII.] LOUIS XVI., FRANCE ABROAD.—UNITED STATES’ WAR
[ CHAPTER LVIII.] LOUIS XVI., FRANCE AT HOME.—MINISTRY OF M. NECKER.
[ CHAPTER LIX.] LOUIS XVI., M. DE CALONNE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF NOTABLES.
[ CHAPTER LX.] LOUIS XVI., CONVOCATION OF THE STATES-GENERAL. 1787-1789.

ILLUSTRATIONS


[ The Grand Monarch in his State Robes——9 ]

[ Madame de La Valliere——10 ]

[ Madame de Montespan 12 ]

[ The Iron Mask——14 ]

[ Bed-chamber Etiquette——15 ]

[ Madame de Maintenon and the Duchess of Burgundy.——27 ]

[ Death of Madame de Maintenon.——34 ]

[ The King Leaving the Death-bed of Monseigneur——36 ]

[ Louis XIV. In Old Age——47 ]

[ The Death-bed of Louis XIV.——50 ]

[ Versailles at Night——52 ]

[ The Regent Orleans——54 ]

[ The Bed of Justice——57 ]

[ John Law——62 ]

[ La Rue Quincampoix—-68 ]

[ The Duke and Duchess of Maine——71 ]

[ Cardinal Dubois——78 ]

[ Peter the Great and Little Louis XV.——82 ]

[ Belzunce Amid the Plague-Stricken——96 ]

[ The Boy King and his People——104 ]

[ Death of the Regent—-107 ]

[ Louis XV.——110 ]

[ Cardinal Fleury—110 ]

[ Mary Leczinska——121 ]

[ Death of Plelo——130 ]

[ “Moriamur Pro Rege Nostro.”——142 ]

[ Louis XV. and his Councillors——148 ]

[ Louis XV. and the Ambassador of Holland——151 ]

[ Marshal Saxe 154 ]

[ Battle of Fontenoy——157 ]

[ Brussels——159 ]

[ The Citadel of Namur——161 ]

[ Arrest of Charles Edward——166 ]

[ Dupleix——168 ]

[ La Bourdonnais——170 ]

[ Dupleix Meeting the Soudhabar of The Deccan——174 ]

[ Death of the Nabob Of The Carnatic——174 ]

[ Lally at Pondicherry——184 ]

[ Champlain——190 ]

[ Death of General Braddock——203 ]

[ Death of Wolfe——209 ]

[ Madame de Pompadour——215 ]

[ Attack on Fort St. Philip——218 ]

[ Assassination of Louis XV. by Damiens——221 ]

[ Death of Chevalier D’Assas——233 ]

[ Antwerp——234 ]

[ “France, Thy Parliament Will Cut off Thy Head Too!”—249 ]

[ Defeat of the Corsicans at Golo——256 ]

[ Montesquieu——269 ]

[ Fontenelle——274 ]

[ Voltaire——277 ]

[ The Rescue of “La Henriade.”——283 ]

[ Arrest of Voltaire——298 ]

[ Diderot——314 ]

[ Alembert——317 ]

[ Diderot and Catherine II.——321 ]

[ Buffon 323 ]

[ Rousseau and Madame D’Epinay——338 ]

[ Louis XVI.——347 ]

[ Turgot’s Dismissal——367 ]

[ Destruction of the Tea——378 ]

[ Suffren——413 ]

[ The Reading of “Paul and Virginia.”——427 ]

[ Necker Hospital——432 ]

[ Marie Antoinette 456 ]

[ “There Are My Sledges, Sirs.”——458 ]

[ Lavoisier——465 ]

[ Cardinal Rohan’s Discomfiture——470 ]

[ Arrest of the Members——502 ]

[ Genealogical Tables——545 ]