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The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-CyrOrléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

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The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr

Name: The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr
Author: Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

France -- Court and courtiers; French letters; Maison royale de Saint-Louis (Saint-Cyr l'École, France)

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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME PRINCESS PALATINE,
MARIE-ADÉLAÏDE DE SAVOIE,
AND
MADAME DE MAINTENON.

Versailles Edition

_Limited to Eight Hundred Numbered Sets, of which
this is_

_No._ ----

[Illustration: "_Madame_"]

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME, PRINCESS PALATINE, _MOTHER OF THE REGENT_;
OF
MARIE-ADÉLAÏDE DE SAVOIE, _DUCHESSE DE BOURGOGNE_;
AND OF
MADAME DE MAINTENON,
_IN RELATION TO SAINT-CYR_.

Preceded by Introductions from C.-A. Sainte-Beuve.

Selected and Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

Boston:
Hardy, Pratt & Company.
1899.

Copyright, 1899,
By Hardy, Pratt & Company.

All rights reserved.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

                                                            PAGE

  INTRODUCTION BY C.-A. SAINTE-BEUVE                                 1

  TRANSLATOR'S NOTE                                                 35

  CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME:
        I. LETTERS OF 1695-1714                                     39
       II. LETTERS OF 1714-1716                                     64
      III. LETTERS OF 1717-1718                                     94
       IV. LETTERS OF 1718-1719                                    124
        V. LETTERS OF 1720-1722                                    153

  CORRESPONDENCE OF MARIE-ADÉLAÏDE DE SAVOIE:
       VI. LETTERS OF THE DUCHESSE DE BOURGOGNE                    182

  CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME DE MAINTENON:
      VII. MME. DE MAINTENON AND SAINT-CYR                         216
     VIII. LETTERS TO THE DAMES DE SAINT-CYR AND
             OTHERS                                                236
       IX. CONVERSATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS OF MME. DE
             MAINTENON AT SAINT-CYR                                268
        X. MME. DE MAINTENON'S DESCRIPTION OF HER LIFE
             AT COURT; WITH A FEW MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS            300

  INDEX                                                            323

LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS.

  MADAME, ÉLISABETH-CHARLOTTE, PRINCESS PALATINE, DUCHESSE
    D'ORLÉANS                                          _Frontispiece_

      By Rigaud (Hyacinthe); in the Brunswick gallery. This is the
      picture Madame mentions in her letters; this reproduction is from
      the copy which she promised to send to her sister Louise, Countess
      Palatine; the original portrait is at Versailles.

  CHAPTER                                                      _Page_

    I. SAINT-CLOUD, CHÂTEAU AND PARK OF                             42

         From a photograph by Neurdin, Paris.

   II. FONTAINEBLEAU. LOUIS XIV. AND ESCORT, HUNTING                64

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