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 XIII., 64. Corruption of manners, 67. Condé and Turenne defeat the Spaniards, 67. Broils and adventures in the contest of 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 resulting from the war, 104. French manners liable to ridiculous interpretation, 109. Molière lashes these foibles, 109. Anecdotes descriptive of the state of society, 171. 217. 230. II. 45. Literature not good at the commencement of Louis XIV.'s reign, I. 262. War of the Spanish succession, 362. Invasion of Flanders, 364. The nation vain, and fond of glory, II. 21. Intolerance of the clergy of, 99. 108. Franceuil, M., his friendship for J. J. Rousseau, II. 128. 129. 135. Francis I., court of, I. 27. 30. He protects Rabelais against the Sorbonne, 32. Franciscan order, the, I. 24. Frederic the Great, king of Prussia, his correspondence with Voltaire, II. 35. He visits Strasbourg, 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 for a volume of the king's poems, 69. Voltaire's arrest until he can receive the volume left at Leipsic, 69. Frederic defeated in battle, addresses an epistle in verse to Voltaire, 73. He gains two victories, 74. His opinion of Voltaire's powers of conversation, 90. Invites J. J. Rousseau to Berlin, 157. French language: affected and extravagant style of Mlle. de Scudéri and others of the Hôtel Rambouillet, I. 107. 108. Fronde, civil war of the, described, I. 68. &c. Great men of this party enumerated, 69. The new and old Fronde, 74. Character of the times of the Fronde, 95. 96. _See_ Life of Rochefoucauld. Furetière, abbé, his Dictionary, I. 168. Anger of against the French Academy, 168. G. Galen, edition of, by Rabelais, I. 26. 28. "Ars Medicinalis" of, 37. Galileo, his investigation of atmospheric laws, I. 191. Gallanous, Peter, controversy of respecting Aristotle, I. 31. Gamache, viscountess de (Eléanore de Montaigne), I. 21. "Gargantua, the Giant, and Pantagruel," of Rabelais, I. 31. Supposed personages pourtrayed in, 32. Editions thereof, 38. Gascony and Guienne, character of the people of, I. 1. Gassendi, astronomer and mathematician, instructs Chapelle and Molière, I. 99.