LOUVOIS (François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de), 165, 282.
MADAME (Élisabeth-Charlotte, Princess Palatine and Duchesse
d'Orléans), too old on coming to France to change her character, 41;
accident in hunting, 43;
sentiments on marriage, 43, 44;
why she lived a solitary life, 45;
prophesies the war of the Spanish succession, 46;
letter to Mme. de Maintenon, 47;
Monsieur's death, 48, 49;
her views of the Bible, 50, 51;
of Christianity, 52, 53;
the poverty of the people, 56, 58;
allusion to deaths of Duc and Duchesse de Bourgogne, 61;
her daily routine of life, 64, 65;
her portrait by Rigaud, 70;
collection of coins and medals, 55, 70;
grief at illness and death of Louis XIV., 70-72;
dislike to Paris, 72, 73, 74;
judgment on the king, 74;
determined not to meddle in affairs of State, 75;
the king's death, 75, 76;
his will, 76;
no longer at Court, 77;
had won her husband's regard, 85;
horror at her son's marriage, 85;
"sister-pacificator," 89;
her medals, 98-100;
her French spelling, 101;
why she would not interfere in State affairs, 106;
a German woman, 107;
prays for her son, 109;
asserts her ugliness, 118;
hatred of tobacco, 118, 119;
how she brought up her daughter, 120;
love for Saint-Cloud, 125;
anxiety about the regent, 131;
deplorable condition of the country, 133, 134;
recounts the distinguished talent she has known in France, 134;
her title of Madame, 143;
goes to installation of Abbess of Chelles, 148-150;
love for her illegitimate grandson, 151;
her roguishness as a child, 152;
rebuke to the Abbé Dubois, 154;
no state at Court, 156, 157;
her illness, 159;
her course of life after Monsieur's death, 160;
reconciled by the king with Mme. de Maintenon, 161;
regard and interest for Louise de La Vallière, 162, 163;
nothing so wearisome as a sermon, 163;
her Bibles, 164;
her novel-reading, 165;
her failing health, 172, 173;
horror at the depravity of Paris, 174, 175;
increasing illness, 179;
goes to the coronation of Louis XV., 180;
her last letter, and death, 181.
MADAME (Henrietta of England), 165, 166, 167.
MAINE (Louis-Auguste, Duc de), 90, 100, 103, 126, 129, 133, 134, 138,
139, 177, 178, 268, 269, 274.
MAINE (Anne-Louise-Benedicité de Bourbon-Condé, Duchesse de), 127,
130, 132, 133, 135, 138, 139, 177.
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.
SAINT-CYR (The Institution of), Sainte-Beuve's essay on it, 216-234;
its completed idea, 217, 218;
its foundation, 221;
first and tentative years, 222;
changes and permanent establishment, 224-230;
its existence after Mme. de Maintenon's death and its final
destruction, 233, 234;
Saint-Cyr, an episode in Mme. de Maintenon's life, 234;
system and arrangement of classes, 235;
letters, conversations, and instructions of Mme. de Maintenon
relating to it, 236-299.