Vaujours, duchy of, 154 Vendome, Elisabeth de, 185 Vendome, M. de, 117 Venice, opera houses of, 214 Ventadour, Duc de, 85, 86 Versailles, palace of, 26; Louis XIV. takes up residence at, 174, 370, 376; fetes, 176-182, 269, 333, 365, etc.; expenses of, 336, 337 _Vers d'Atys_, 81 Vexin, Comte de, 235 _Vie de Madame de Fouquerolles_ (Mademoiselle), 132 Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, 89 Villeroy, Marechal de, 290 Villeroy, Mme. de, 75 Vincennes, 111, 347 Vise, Donneau de _Mecure Galant_, 365 Vittori, 214 Voiture, 131 _Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont_, 32 W Westphalia, peace of, 99 _A Selection from the Catalogue of_ G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS [Illustration] Complete Catalogues sent on application [Blank Page] By ARVEDE BARINE The Youth _of_ La Grande Mademoiselle 1627-1652 _Authorized English Version_ Octavo. With 25 illustrations from contemporaneous sources. Net, $3.00. (By mail, $3.25.) "A book that is decidedly interesting and that is well worth reading. The subject and the heroine is enough to make the volume attractive.... The volume is handsomely printed, and the illustrations are representative as well as accurate."--_The London Spectator._ "This brilliant biography sparkles and intoxicates with literary vivacity. In connection with the career of the astonishing heroine, the author presents a picture that has hardly been surpassed of Court life and politics in France in the seventeenth century. The illustrations from contemporary prints add greatly to the attractiveness of this fascinating volume."--_Chicago Evening Post._ Louis XIV _and_ La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 _Authorized English Version_ Octavo. With 30 illustrations. Net, $3.00. (By mail, $3.25) (Uniform with "The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle") "A new work on La Grande Mademoiselle by Arvede Barine is a promise of delight to all who love wit and wisdom.... It is bewildering to think of the many crowns and coronets that might have rested on the brow of the dramatic heroine, a heroine who appears and disappears in clouds of dust, with regiments of cavalry wheeling and whirling around her to the sound of the trumpets--the stern devotee of reason who dismissed one of her maids because she married for love--the philosopher who debated in her mimic court whether an accepted lover is more unhappy than a rejected lover in the absence of the beloved.... The story of this heroine is told by Barine with that art which conceals art.... It forms a fitting supplement to the equally delightful volume which preceded it describing "The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle."--_London Times._ _New York_ . G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS . _London_ Portraits of the Seventeenth Century By C. A. Sainte-Beuve TRANSLATED BY KATHARINE P. WORMELEY Two Parts. Octavo. With about 30 Illustrations Sold separately. Each, $2.50 net _CONTENTS OF PART ONE_