France -- Court and courtiers; France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774
Madame de Campan’s words concerning, 270;
universally beloved, 272;
falls ill, 273;
her last moments and death, 273–275;
her funeral, 276;
the last Queen who ended her days on the throne of France, 276.
Marie Thérèse Antoinette Raphaelle, her marriage to the Dauphin,
110;
her amiability, 111;
her death, 129, 130, 258.
Massillon, 275.
Maurepas, 89, 90, 162.
Memoirs of court of Louis XV., 3.
_Mère coquette_, performed at Versailles, 142.
Michelet, his words concerning Madame de Prie, 36;
his effort to cast ridicule on the daughters of Louis XV., 245;
accuses Madame Elisabeth of being the cause of the Seven Years’
War, 253, 254.
Montpensier, Mademoiselle, her birth and marriage, 19;
becomes Queen of Spain, 19;
sent back to France, 20;
her later life, 21.
Motte, Mademoiselle de la, 117.
Nattier, his portrait of Marie Leczinska, 237.
Nesle, Mademoiselle de, see Félicité, Pauline.
Nuptial ceremony of putting to bed, described, 262, 263.
Orleans, Duke of, 16;
sketch of his career, 113, 114.
Palissot, verses by, 228.
Parliament, Madame de Pompadour’s conduct towards, 194;
Louis XV.’s attitude towards, 196–198, 200;
one hundred and fifty members of, resign, 198;
members of, pose as protectors of liberty, 200.
Pérusseau, 79.
Philip, Don, son of Philip V. of Spain, marries Madame Elisabeth,
247;
obtains sovereignty of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastella, 247;
not esteemed by his wife, 253.
Philip V. of Spain, 18, 19.
Poisson, Abel, 148, 149, 160.
Poisson, François, 117.
Poisson, Jeanne Antoine, afterwards Marquise de Pompadour, 117;
see Pompadour, Madame de.
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