her attitude towards Voltaire, 215; her attitude towards Quesnay, 215; her attitude towards the philosophers, 214 _et seq._, 221; La Tour’s pastel of, 216; anonymous letters to, 217, 218; reviled by the people, 220; effects the expulsion of the Jesuits, 221, 222; eulogized by Voltaire, 223; foresees the crumbling of the government, 224; aged prematurely, 226, 227; her courage in suffering, 227; falls ill at Choisy, 227; feels the coming of death, 229; fears the King more than God, 229; her death-bed, 229, 230; her will, 230; her death, 230, 231; funeral service of, 231; regretted by the men of letters, 232, 233; compared with Marie Leczinska, 233–235, 276. Porcelains, Madame de Pompadour’s interest in, 202. _Précis du siècle de Louis XV._, Voltaire’s, 154. _Préjugé à la mode, Le_, performed at Versailles, 139. Prie, Marquise de, mistress of the Duke of Bourbon, 16; influence of, at court, 16, 18; her life, 17; pleased at marriage of Louis XV. to Marie Leczinska, 31; plots to get rid of Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, 33; expelled from court by Louis XV., 35; the bitterness of her last years, 36, 37; her death, 38; rumored to have poisoned herself, 38. Provence, Count of, 265. Quesnay, 183, 185; the confidant of Madame de Pompadour, 215; his character, 216. Revolution, the, prophecies of, 218, 219, 224. Richelieu, Duke de, description of, by D’Argenson, 61; his plan at court, 62; made first gentleman of the chamber, 71; his exasperation at the favor of Madame de Pompadour with the King, 127; quarrel of, with Duke de la Vallière, 142–144; his treatment of Madame de Pompadour, 143, 261; his words concerning Marie Josèphe of Saxony, 259. Rohan, Cardinal, 26. Rousseau, his letter to Madame de Pompadour, 146. Sainte-Beuve, his words concerning Madame de Pompadour, 161; his description of La Tour’s pastel of Marie Leczinska, 236. Saint Monica, 269. Sarcy, Père de, refuses Madame de Pompadour absolution, 174, 175, 190. Saxe, Marshal, negotiates the marriage of Marie Josèphe of Saxony with the Dauphin, 258–261; his words concerning Marie Josèphe, 261, 262; his description of the ceremonial of putting to bed, 262, 263. “School of Man, The,” a pamphlet attacking Louis XV., 165, 166. Seven Years’ War, the, Madame de Pompadour held responsible for, 201; the results of, 212. Sophie, Madame, 247, 255. Soubise, 209. _Surprises de l’amour, Les_, performed at Versailles, 142. _Tancred_, performed at Versailles, 142. _Tartuffe_, performed at Versailles, 139.