A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
Robert Black translation
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