Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors, French -- Biography
Montpellier, the faculty at, I. 27.
Duprat, chancélier, deprives the
physicians of their privileges, who
are defended by Rabelais, 27.
Montpensier, mademoiselle de,
daughter of Gaston d'Orléans, I.
81. Her spirit in the contest before
the walls of Paris, 82. Her
intercourse with madame de Sévigné,
217.
N.
Nantes, revocation of the edict of, I.
257. 323. II. 79.
Necker, M., minister to Louis XVI.
_See_ Staël.
Nemours, duke of, joined by the
great Condé, I. 78. Is wounded
in the battle of St. Antoine, 81.
Killed in a duel by his brother-in-law
the duke of Beaufort, 82.
Nevers, duke of, I. 313.
Newcastle, duke of, his "Sir Martin
Marplot" an imitation of
"L'Etourdi" of Molière, I. 103.
Newton, sir Isaac, II. 18. 24. 25.
Nicole, M., theologian, I. 198. 267.
307. 315.
Ninon de l'Enclos, a trust confided
to, I. 120, n. Molière reads his
"Tartuffe" to, 120. The marquis
de Sévigné her admirer, 217. 230.
The marquis de Grignan, 230, n.
Ladies of the court friendly to
her, 235.
Noailles, de, archbishop of Paris
and cardinal, I. 339.
Noyer, madame du, II. 7. 8.
Noyer, mademoiselle du, admiration
of Voltaire for, II. 8. She marries
the baron de Winterfeld, 9.
O.
"Œdipe," tragedy by Corneille, I. 54.
"Œdipe," Voltaire's, II. 15.
Olivet, l'abbé, observations on La
Fontaine by, I. 151. 155.
Orléans, Gaston duke of, I. 66. 81.
_See_ Henrietta, duchess of.
Orléans, duke of, regent, I. 363. II.
10. Voltaire suspected of writing
the "Philippiques," a satire on
the regent, 15.
Ormesson, M. d', I, 223.
P.
"Pantagruel," by Rabelais, I. 31.
32. 34. Editions of, 38. Pantagruelian
caricatures, wood-cuts,
38. "Pantagrueline Prognostication,
the," I. 37.
Panurge, portraiture by Rabelais, I.
32. 35. 38.
Paris, day of the barricades, I. 68.
Blockade of, 70. 217. The troops
of the capital despised, 71. Riot
and licentiousness, 71. The prince
of Condé defeated by Turenne
under the walls of, 81. Paris not
favourable to stage representations
during the civil war, 102.
Parisian society ridiculed by Molière
in his plays, 107. Parisian
society in the time of Voltaire, II.
6. _et seq._ Reception of Voltaire
at Paris in 1788, 102. Paris during
the Revolution, see vol. II., lives
of Mirabeau, &c.
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