There is no state on earth, madame, that does not have its troubles; your good mind, your courage, and your blood have always diminished yours. Our Maréchal de Villeroy scarcely ever sees me now; but he does me kindnesses every day of his life. He is the refuge of the miserable. You would be satisfied with the public opinion of his merit; I know men who do not like him who, nevertheless, cannot help admitting that he makes a noble personage. Believe me, madame, that I can never forget the marks of your goodness to me, and that I shall die with the same attachment as ever to you. * * * * * [Mme. de Maintenon died at Saint-Cyr, April 15, 1719, in the eighty-fifth year of her age.] INDEX. BERRY (Charles, Duc de), 62, 210, 314. BERRY (Marie Louise Élisabeth, Duchesse de), 57, 77, 80, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122, 144, 146, 147, 148, 314, 318. BISSY (Cardinal de), 84. BOURGOGNE (Louis, Duc de), 86, 308, 313. BOURGOGNE (Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de), 170, 172; Sainte-Beuve's introduction to her letters, 182-190; letter of Louis XIV., describing her, 183, 184; her appearance, 186; she came of the race of the great, 186; her letters, 187; her levity, 187; corrects herself, 187, 188; did she have weaknesses of the heart? 188, 189; her serious good qualities, 189; mistaken charge of treachery, 189, 190; description of her letters, 191; arrival in France and first letter to her grandmother, 192; letters from 1696 to 1712, 192-214; her bad writing, 193, 194; at the camp of Compiègne, 194; letter to her father, 196; to her grandmother, 197, 198; to her mother, 198-200; birth and death of her first child, 201; grief at war between France and Savoie, 202; letter to Mme. de Maintenon accepting rebuke, 204; failing health, 204; the Meudon cabal, 206; letter concerning her from Duc de Bourgogne, 206; letter to her father, 207; the terrible winter, 208; anxieties about the war, 209; birth of the Duc d'Anjou (Louis XV.), 210; marriage of Duc de Berry, 210; letter to her father, 211; disapproval of her father's course, 212; hopes of peace, 213; failing health, 214; death, 215; Sainte-Beuve asserts she is only rightly known in the letters of Mme. de Maintenon and the Princesse des Ursins, 234; her knowledge of all kinds of manual work, 284; her thoughtlessness, 284; her sweet docility, 294; references to her in the letters of Mme. de Maintenon to the Princesse des Ursins, 308-320. BRINON (Mme. de), 235, 238. BUONAPARTE (Marie Anne de), 233, 234. BUONAPARTE (Napoléon de), 233, 234. CELLAMARE (Prince), Spanish ambassador, 136. CHAMILLY (Marquis de), 68. CHELLES (Louise-Adélaïde d'Orléans, Abbess of), 131, 148-150. CLÉREMBAULT (La Maréchale de), 181, 303. CONTI (François-Louis, Prince de), 44.