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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)

MAINTENON (Françoise d'Aubigné, Mme. de), 47, 48, 57, 59, 70, 71,
72, 74, 75, 78, 82, 83, 87, 91, 103, 104, 105, 122, 124, 132, 133, 140,
182, 186, 192, 204;
    Sainte-Beuve's essay on her and on Saint-Cyr, 216-234;
    portrait of her by a Dame de Saint-Cyr, 218;
    her art of government, 219;
    her ideal in Saint-Cyr, 226;
    her precepts, 227-230;
    happy only at Saint-Cyr, 231, 232;
    her unconscious prediction verified, 233;
    treated as a queen at last, 234;
    letters to the Dames de Saint-Cyr and others, 236-267;
    conversations and instructions addressed to the mistresses and
pupils of Saint-Cyr, 268-299;
    herself and Mme. de Montespan, 276;
    and Mlle. de Fontanges, 277;
    her description of her life at Court, 300-308;
    letters to the Duc de Noailles, 308;
    to the Princesse des Ursins, 308-310, 321;
    to Mme. de Glapion, 309;
    to Mme. de Dangeau, 310;
    to the Duc de Beauvilliers, 320;
    death of Louis XIV., 320;
    her death, 321.

  MAISONFORT (Mme. de La), 223, 224.

  MARIE-THÉRÈSE (The Infanta), wife of Louis XIV., 154-156.

  MAZARIN (Cardinal de), 78.

  MONSEIGNEUR (Louis, Dauphin), 59-61, 94, 95, 183, 302.

  MONSIEUR (Philippe, Duc d'Orléans), 47, 48, 57, 81, 82, 85, 89, 90,
97, 98, 160, 166, 167, 183.

  MONTESPAN (Mme. de), 124, 276.

  MONTPENSIER (Louise-Élisabeth d'Orléans, Mlle. de), Queen of Spain,
176, 178.


  NANGIS (Général de), 87.

  NASSAU (Comte de), 40.

  NOAILLES (Cardinal de), 83, 84.

  NOAILLES (Duc de), 308.


  ORLÉANS (Philippe Duc d'), Regent, 49, 54, 55, 60, 61, 68, 70, 72,
73, 74, 76, 76-81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 101, 102, 103, 108, 109, 110, 125,
126, 128, 131, 135, 137, 140, 147, 148, 154-157, 170, 173, 180, 312.

  ORLÉANS (Françoise de Bourbon, Duchesse d'), 79, 80, 86, 88, 119,
120, 134, 135, 140, 154, 156.


  PALATINATE (The), 40, 41.

  PÉROU (Mme. du), mistress at Saint-Cyr, 235, 242, 253, 256, 257, 261,
263.

  PETERBOROUGH (Charles Mordaunt, Earl of), 65, 66, 169.

  POLIGNAC (Cardinal de), 84, 139.

  PORTSMOUTH (Duchess of), 69.

  PRETENDER (The), James, "Chevalier de St. George," 78, 79, 90.


  RACINE (Jean), 222, 223, 224, 232.

  REGENT (see Orléans, Philippe, Duc d').

  RETZ (Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de), 165.

  RICHELIEU (Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de), 87.

  RICHELIEU (Louis-François-Armand Duplessis, Duc de), 141, 142, 144,
145.

  RUSSIA (Peter the Great, Czar of), 104, 130, 131.


  SAINT-ALBIN (The Abbé de), 150, 151, 177.

  SAINTE-BEUVE (Charles-Augustin), his introduction to Madame's
correspondence, 1-33;
    to the Duchesse de Bourgogne's letters, 182-190;
    essay on Mme. de Maintenon at Saint-Cyr, 216-234.

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