Mademoiselle, La Grande, 17, 23 Maeterlinck, M., 160 Magne, M., Emile, 63 Mahon, Col Patrice, 151 Maine, Duc du, 46,47 Maine, Duchesse du, 116 Maintenon, Mme de, 46 Malebranche, 122 Malizian, 70 Manceau, Col. Emile, 149 Mandeville, Bernard, 42, 126 Marcillac, Prince de, 11, 12, 47, _see_ La Rochefoucauld Mirabeau, Marquis de, 100, 103-105 Moliere, 48 Nolly, Emile; _see_ Detanger Paleologue, M., 105, 169 Paris, Gaston, 135 Parma, French victory at, 102 Pascal, xviii, 22, 23, 32, 33, 35, 55, 81, 113, 115, 122, 127, 128 Peguy, 146 Petitot, 19 Phelippeaux, Abbe, 87, 88 Picq, Col. Ardent du 147, 148 Pierrepont, 136 Pin, Abbe Ellies du, 92 Plessis, Mme du, 36 Plutarch's "Lives," 99, 100 Pompadour, Mme de, 114 Port Royal, 22, 23, 27, 28, 36, 86 Prague, capture of, 107 Quercy, 155 Quimper,157, 158 Racine, xix, 35, 47, 122, 123 Rambouillet, Hotel de, 7 Regnier, Henri, 20 Retz, Cardinal de, 10, 16, 17 _Revue Critique_, 150 Rhine, Passage of the, 40 _n_. Richelieu, 10-12, 14 Roe, Art, _see_ Mahon Rousseau, J.J., 38 Ruffec, 19 Sable, Mme de, 4, 5, 21, 23, 29, 31, 32. 36, 41 _n_. Saint-Antoine, Faubourg, 18 Saint-Cyr, 137 Saint-Simon, quoted, 79, 91 Schomberg, Duchesse de, 7 Scudery, Mlle de, 39, 45 Sedan, 153 Segrais, 35, 50 _n_ Seguier (Chancellor), 30 Seneca, 43 Seven Years War, 106 Sevigne, Mme de, 34, 39 _n_, 40 _n_, 45 _n_, quoted, 48-50 Seyres, Hippolyte de, 107-110 Shaftesbury, Third Earl, 126 Shakespeare, quoted, 6, 30 Singlin, Antoine, 22 Societe des Gens de Lettres, 138 _Spectator_, the, 88, 89 Spinoza, 33 Steele, Sir Richard, 89 Stephen, Sir Leslie, 34 Stevenson, R.L., 78, 101, 165 Suard, 99, 121 Sully, 129 Tailly-sur-Meuse, 143, 148 Tallemont des Reaux, 22 Temple, Sir William, 118, 126 Theophrastus, 69-71, 88 Thiange, Mme de, 46, 47 Torquet, M. Charles, 165 Turin, 102 Valincourt, 64 Vauban, Sebastien de, 84 _n_. Vauvenargues, Marquis de, 97-132; birth and parentage, 99-101; described as "Clazomene," 121; serves in the Bohemian campaign, 98, 107, 109, 112, in garrison at Arras, 113; in garrison at Metz, 106, 113, in Paris, 120, with Villars in Lombardy, 102; his "Eloge" on De Seyres, 109, his "Discours sur la Gloire," 109, his "Introduction a la Connaissance de l'Esprit humain," 124, his "Reflexions sur divers Sujets," 104, 117, 121, 127 Verdun, 144 Vernulius, 28 Verteuil, 19, 20, 48 Vigneul de Marville, 60, 61 _n_. Villars, Marshal de, 102, 129 Violand, Camille, 151, 155-160 Virton, Battle of, 144, 157 Vivonne, Andree de, 10 Voiture, 8 Voltaire, 40, 84, 101 _n_, 111-114, quoted, 33, 52, 75, 122, 123 Vouziers, 155 Young's "Night-Thoughts," 110