France -- Court and courtiers; France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774
Desmarets, Père, 181, 186.
_Devin du Village, Le_, performed at Bellevue, 146.
Diderot, his words concerning Madame de Pompadour, 232.
Duclos, quoted, 215.
Economists, the, 218.
Elisabeth, Madame, daughter of the Dauphiness, 265.
Elisabeth, Madame, the Infanta, marries, 247;
goes to Spain, 247;
visits her parents at Versailles, 247, 248;
her grief at her sister Henriette’s death, 252, 253;
spends a year at Versailles, 253;
did not esteem her husband, 253;
her ambitions, 253;
her final return to France and death, 253, 254;
accused by Michelet of causing the Seven Years’ War, 253, 254;
a selection from one of her last letters, 254.
Elisabeth of Russia, death of, 211.
Encyclopedia, the, 216, 271.
Encyclopedists, the, 217, 218.
_Enfant prodigue, L’_, performed at Versailles, 139, 154.
_Erigone_, performed at Versailles, 139.
Étioles, Madame d’, Marquise de Pompadour, see Pompadour,
Marquise de.
Étioles, M. Lenormand d’, 118, 120, 121, 175;
not anxious to take back his wife, 176.
Europe, condition of, after treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 202, 203.
Favart, verses by, 228.
Félicité, Pauline, Mademoiselle de Nesle comes to Versailles, 54;
becomes mistress of Louis XV., 54;
marries Count de Vintimille, 56;
see Vintimille, Countess de.
Fitz-James, Bishop, forbids Louis XV. absolution while Madame de
Châteauroux remains with him, 79;
administers extreme unction to the King, 80;
his detractors, 80.
Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, 30;
his origin and advancement, 32;
preceptor of Louis XV., 32;
his influence over Louis XV., 32;
Madame de Prie’s plot to get rid of, 33;
departs from the court, 34;
is recalled by Louis XV., 34;
his death, 68, 246.
Fontanelle, his verses to Marie Leczinska, 239, 240.
Frederick the Great, 205, 214, 222.
Fréjus, Bishop of, see Fleury.
Gresset, 139.
Helvetius, quoted, 215.
Hénault, President, his words concerning Marquise de Pompadour,
118;
offers manuscript of his _Abrégé chronologique_ to Marie
Leczinska, 238;
his verses to Marie Leczinska, 239.
Henriette, Madame, 247, 248;
of her by Honoré Bonhomme, 249;
her death, 248, 249;
her sad love affair, 250, 251;
her death, 252.
Hermitage, the, 151.
Infanta, Madame, see Elisabeth, Madame.
_Ismène_ performed at Versailles, 139.
Issart, Marquis des, 261.
Jansenism, 194, 195.
Jesuits, 173–175, 189–192;
the order condemned, 221, 222.
La Tour, his pastel of Madame de Pompadour, 216;
his pastel Marie Leczinska, 236.
Leczinska, Marie, see Marie Leczinska.
Leczinska, Stanislas, his life of exile, 23;
his death, 266.
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