Exile of Prostitutes.--Measures of Louis XIV.--Laws of 1684
and 1713.--Police Regulations.--Ordinance of 1778.--
Republican Legislation.--Frightful state of Paris.--Efforts
to pass a general Law.--The Court.--Louis XIII.--The
Medicis.--Louis XIV.--La Vallière.--Montespan.--Maintenon.--
Literature of the Day.--Feudal Rights.--The Regency.--Duchess
of Berri.--Claudine de Tencin.--Louis XV.--Madame de
Pompadour.--Dubarry.--Parc aux Cerfs.--Louis XVI.--Philippe
Egalité.--Subsequent Sovereigns.--Literature.--Lewd Novels
and Pictures.--Tendency of Philosophy.--The Church. 120