[Footnote 295: _Mme. de Montespan et Louis XIV._] [Footnote 296: _Louis XIV., sa Cour et le Regent_, by Anquetil (Paris, 1789).] [Footnote 297: The gift to be enjoyed only after the death of Mademoiselle.] [Footnote 298: _Memoires de Saint-Simon._] [Footnote 299: Saint-Simon, _Ecrits inedits_.] [Footnote 300: At Chalon-sur-Saone.] [Footnote 301: Exactly, according to the official figures, 284,940 francs.] [Footnote 302: The coat called a _brevet_, because it could only be worn with a _brevet_ from the King, was changed every year. It was thus very out of fashion at the end of twelve years. Lauzun had worn a wig at Pignerol, to protect his head against the dampness of his dungeon.] [Footnote 303: _Ecrits inedits_, Saint-Simon.] [Footnote 304: Saint-Simon, _Memoires_. Saint-Simon takes his details from an eye-witness.] [Footnote 305: Saint-Simon, _Ecrits inedits_.] [Footnote 306: Sevigne.] [Footnote 307: _Memoires de la Cour de France_, by Mme. de La Fayette.] [Footnote 308: Sevigne, January 6, 1689.] [Footnote 309: Letter of M. d'Amfreville, general-officer of the marine to Seignelay, in the _Histoire de Louvois_, by Camille Rousset.] [Footnote 310: Saint-Simon, _Ecrits inedits_.] [Footnote 311: _[Oe]uvres completes_, of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Paris, 1830), vol. i.; _Essai sur la Vie_ by Aime-Martin.] [Footnote 312: Cf. the _Gazette_ for 1693, and the series of the _Mercure Galant_ monthly periodical, founded in 1672 by Donneau de Vise.] [Footnote 313: Saint-Simon, _Memoires_.] [Footnote 314: Saint-Simon says fifteen. He is mistaken; the act of marriage says fourteen.] [Footnote 315: _Memoires_, Saint-Simon.] [Footnote 316: Saint-Simon, _Memoires_.] [Footnote 317: The royal ordinance is dated July 7, 1668. Louis XIV. was ever ignorant of the fact that the councillors of the Hotel de Ville had passed nights in copying what was to be burned, so that the documents supposed to be destroyed still exist.] [Footnote 318: From La Riviere to Bussy-Rabutin.] [Footnote 319: _Relation de la Cour de France_, by Ezechiel Spanheim, envoy extraordinary from Brandenbourg.] INDEX A Absolute monarchy, establishment of, in France, 7, 118, 142; a Spanish importation, 371 Adickes, Erich, _Kant als Mensch_ by, 220 Aime-Martin, _Essai sur la Vie_, by, 365 Aix, Court at, 100-102 Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, 258 Albret, Marechal d', 282 _Alceste_ (Lulli), 218 Alencon, Elisabeth, Mlle, d', daughter of Monsieur, 77, 133, 186; marriage of, 235, 294 Allier, Raoul, _La Cabale des Devots_, by, 83, 85, 157, 181, 198 Alluye, Marquise d', 344 Alphonse VI., King of Portugal, 142-145, 160, 185 _Amadis_, 216 _Amants Magnifiques, Les_ (Moliere), 202 _Amaryllis_, 18 _Ambassadeur de la Fuente au roi d'Espagne, L'_, 189 Amboise, Chateau of, 27, 44, 354 Amfreville, M. d', 364 Amiens, 263 "Amours of Hercules," 120 Andilly, Arnauld, d', 79 _Andromaque_ (Racine), 225, 228 Angelique, Mother, 88, 92 Angennes, Julie d', 264