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180. Gay's, [179]. Anonymous
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Fayette, countess de la, her novel
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Friendship of the duke of Rochefoucauld
for, [85]. [87]. Her mansion
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[231]. Her portrait or character of
de Sévigné, [255].
Fénélon, François de Salignac de
la Mothe, born in 1651, I. [329]. His
ancestry, [329]. His education, [331].
Takes his degree at Cahors, [331].
The abbé Fénélon's sermons at
nineteen applauded, [331]. His strict
attention to the sacerdotal duties,
[332]. His purpose of becoming missionary,
[332]. Louis XIV. desires
him to convert the Huguenots,
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[335]. Writes on female education,
[335]. His "Telemachus,"
[337]. [356]. [371]. Appointed archbishop
of Cambrai, [339]. Is deceived
by the zeal and pretended
visions of madame Guyon, [340].
Declines approval of Bossuet's
condemnation of her, [343]. Louis
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Exiled to his diocese, [346]. [360].
His "Exposition des Maximes
des Saints sur la vie intérieure,"
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subject among the great prelates,
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His religious principles, [362]. et
passim. Is visited by the duke of
Burgundy at Cambrai, [364]. His
active charity, [365]. Louis XIV.
becomes sensible of his unjust
treatment of this great prelate,
[366]. The archbishop's sickness
and death, [367]. His character,
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Ramsay, a Scottish baronet, describes
his habits and disposition,
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[372]. Political views in
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Fénélon, marquis de, I. [331]. [367].
Ferney, château of, Voltaire's seclusion
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Ferney, village of, II. [101].
Fleuri, cardinal de, II. [32]. [42]. [44].
His death.
Fleury, abbé de, sous-précepteur
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&c.
Fontenelle, nephew of Corneille, I.
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Fouquet, minister of finance, incites
Pierre Corneille to write
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too sumptuously, [111]. Offends
mademoiselle de la Vallière.
[112]. Louis XIV. restrains his
anger during the fête given by
the financier, [113]. His disgrace,
[162]. Is brought to trial, [222].
Imprisoned in Pignerol until his
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seized, [224].
France, the civil war between Catholics
and Huguenots, I. [11].
Consequences of civil war, the
rise of statesmen and warriors,
and next of poets and authors,
[41]. Events on the death of Louis
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[67]. Condé and Turenne
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the Fronde against Mazarin and
the court, [70]. [75]. The kingdom
suffers in commerce, learning,
arts and sciences; and demoralization
a further consequence of
civil war, [77]. Licentiousness
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French manners liable to ridiculous
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Anecdotes descriptive of the state
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Literature not good at the commencement
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Francis I., court of, I. [27]. [30]. He
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[32].
Franciscan order, the, I. [24].
Frederic the Great, king of Prussia,
his correspondence with Voltaire,
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[39]. Voltaire's interview with
Frederic at the castle of Clèves,
[39]. Description of the monarch,
[39]. [41]. He attacks the principles
of Machiavelli, [40]. He seizes on
Silesia, [42]. Concludes peace with
the empress Maria Theresa, [46].
Negotiations with France, [47].
The king welcomes Voltaire to
Potsdam, and grants him a place
and a pension, [57]-[65]. Appoints
Maupertuis, president of the Royal
Academy, [54]. Refuses permission
to Voltaire to quit his service,
[67]. Their interview, [67].
Reconciliation effected, [68]. Frederic
sends to Voltaire at Frankfort
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he can receive the volume left
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in battle, addresses an epistle in
verse to Voltaire, [73]. He gains
two victories, [74]. His opinion of
Voltaire's powers of conversation,
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French language: affected and extravagant
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Fronde, civil war of the, described,
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Galileo, his investigation of atmospheric
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Gallanous, Peter, controversy of
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Gamache, viscountess de (Eléanore
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"Gargantua, the Giant, and Pantagruel,"
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personages pourtrayed in,
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Gascony and Guienne, character of
the people of, I. [1].
Gassendi, astronomer and mathematician,
instructs Chapelle and
Molière, I. [99].
Gaussin, Mademoiselle, celebrated
and beautiful actress, II. [22].
Gauthier Garguille, excellent comedian,
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Gay's Fables, comparison of La
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Geneva, residence of "Les Délices"
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château de Ferney, on the adjacent
French territory, [76]. Rousseau's
early years passed at
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him at a later period by his
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[149]. Rousseau replies to
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Genlis, countess de, narrates her
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Rousseau offended by, [167].
Gex, town of, II. [100].
Gibbon, Edward, esq. the historian,
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Gilbert, tragedy of "Rodogune" by,
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Ginguené, M., criticisms of, I. [34].
Goldsmith, Oliver, opinions relative
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Gournay le Jars, Marie de, I. [20].
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Gourville, secretary to de la Rochefoucauld,
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Graffigny, madame de, II. [26]. [30]. [33].
Grammont, count de, espouses
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Greek, Rabelais familiar with, I. [38].
Greek tragedy, unities of the,
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Grignan, count de, his marriage,
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de Sévigné, [227]. He repairs to
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[228].
Grignan, countess de, daughter of
madame, de Sévigné, educated
by her mother, II. [218]. Is presented
at court, [225]. Appeared at the
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[226]. Accepts the hand of the
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[227]. Accompanies her husband
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[246]. Renewed journeys to see
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[247]. [249]. Her children, [248]. Is
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Gros René, comedian, I. [102].
Gros René, madame, actress, I. [102].
Guibert, count de, II. [98].
Guise, duke of, assassinated at Blois,
I. [11].
Guyon, madame, enthusiasm or
mysticism of, I. [340]. et seq. Her
fervour occasions the disgrace of
Fénélon, [342]. He speaks in her
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H.
Hamilton, la belle, countess of
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Hardy, early French dramatic author,
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Harlay de, archbishop of Paris, I.
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Harpe, La, M., critical remarks of
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Helvetius, M., II. [171]. Madame
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[Henrietta] of England, duchess of
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[164].
Henry, king of Navarre, I. [11].
Henry IV. king of France, I. [11].
Character of his court warlike and
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Herbault, Puits d', monk of Fontevrault,
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Hippocrates, edited or translated by
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[26].
Holland, lord, on the Spanish
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Houdetot, countess d', II. [128]. Her
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Huguenots, blame attached by
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Oppression of the, [257]. Bourdaloue
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I.
Innocent X., condemns the five propositions
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Intolerance, cases of, II. [79]. [83]. [85].
J.
James II., arrival of, in France, I.
[251].
Jansenius, Cornelius, bishop of
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by the Jesuits from his work on
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the Sorbonne, I. [200].
Jansenists, origin of the, I. [200].
Controversies respecting the abbé
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Their spirit of controversy, [339].
Fénélon opposed to Jansenism,
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Jesuits, order of, I. [200]. [207]. They
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Jura Mountains, peasants of the,
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K.