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Académie des Sciences, 21
Académie Française, 20, 93
Adéláide de France, Princess (1732–1800), daughter of Louis XV, 36, 68
Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of (1668), 15
Albemarle, Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of (d. 1718), 124, 125, 131, 165
Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria (1819–60), 123
d’Allone, secretary to Portland, 124
d’Alluye, Marquise: involved in poisons scandal, 58
Alsace: surrender by France demanded by the Grand Alliance, 155
Ambassadors’ Staircase, Versailles, 67, 68
America, 16, 20, 25; gold and bullion from, 137, 164; North, 122; South, 122, 129, 136
Amsterdam, United Provinces, 16, 20
amusements at Versailles, 40, 92
Andrea del Sarto (1486–1531), 39
Andromaque (Racine) (1667), 109
d’Angoulême, Marie-Françoise,
Duchesse (1630–96), and poisons scandal, 56
d’Anjou, Philippe see Philip V
Anne (1665–1714), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1702, 143, 145
Anne of Austria (1601–66), daughter of Philip III of Spain, m. Louis XIII of France (1615), 9, 14, 23, 32f, 73, 87, 148
Antilles, the, 122
d’Antin, Louis-Antoine de Gondrin de Pardaillon, Marquis, later Duc, 86, 90, 163
appartement at Versailles, 40, 68, 145
Aragon ancestors of Louis XIV, 13, 14
Arcueil, Aqueduct of (Seine), 25
d’Arnauld, Mère (Jacqueline Marie), Angélique (1591–1661), 98
Arnaulds of Port Royal, 117
Arran, Milord, 86
Asia, 16
Athalie (Racine: 1690), 114
Atlantic coast frozen (1709), 153
d’Aubigné, Agrippa (Mme de Maintenon’s grandfather), 80
d’Aubigné, M. (Mme de Maintenon’s father), 80
d’Aubigné, Mme de, 80
d’Aubigné, Charles, Comte (1634–1703)
(Mme de Maintenon’s brother), 80, 81, 93; his wife, 81, 93, 129; for his daughter, see Noailles, Françoise, Duchesse de
d’Aubigné family, 80f.
Augsburg, League of (1686), 98
Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354–430): Dames of Saint-Cyr transformed into nuns of the community of, 116
Augustus II (1670–1733), Elector of Saxony, King of Poland from 1697, 89
Austria, 112, 136, 145, 164; Archduchess of, see Margaret Theresa, Empress
d’Auvergne, Prince, 124
Avignon (Vaucluse), 125
d’Ayen, Comte, see Noailles, Adrien-Maurice, Duc de
Bains, Appartement des, Versailles, 36; given to Mme de Montespan, 82
Balbien, Nanon (Mme de Maintenon’s maid), 62, 148
Balearic Islands, 122
Barbary Wars, 20, 137
Barclay, Sir George (fl. 1696), 126
Barèges, Haute-Pyrénées, spa, 49, 103
Bart, Jean (1650–1702), 89
Bartet, Isaac (King’s secretary), 101
Bassano, Jacopo (c. 1510–92), 39, 75
bassette: game played at Versailles, 51
Bastille, 58, 86, 97; Mme Guyon in, 121
Baulot (or Baulieu), Jacques (1650–1720), quack, 102
Bavaria, Elector of, see Maximilian II; Joseph Ferdinand, Prince of (1692–99), 122, 131, 136; coat of arms, 83
Beaumont, Marquis de (a heavy gambler), 40
Beauvilliers, Henriette-Louise Colbert, Duchesse de (1657–1733), 93ff, 118, 138, 166
Beauvilliers, Paul, Comte de Saint-Aignan, Duc de (1648–1714), 38, 93ff, 118, 120, 136, 149, 152, 159; death of two sons from smallpox, 166; his death, 166
Bedford, John Russell, 4th Duke of (1710–71), 130
Belle-Isle, Charles-Louis-Auguste Fouquet, Duc et Maréchal de (1684–1761), 10
Bérain, Jean (1639–1711), 90
Bernard, Samuel (1651–1739), financier, 154
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo (1598–1680): designs for Louvre not approved 13; bust of Louis XIV, 13f; and statue, 13f
Berri, Charles de France, Duc de (1685–1714), 3rd son of the Grand Dauphin, 41, 83, 135, 160; Fénelon appointed his tutor, 115; suggested by Louis XIV as heir to a Spanish crown, 129, 138; his marriage, 146; and behaviour and character, 146–7, 149–50; grief at death of his father, 158; death, 166
Berri, Marie-Louise d’Orléans (Mlle de Valois: 1695–1719), m. Charles Duc de Berri (1710), 146, 162, 167; and the Grand Dauphin’s death, 158; birth of dead daughter, 160; King’s dislike of, 162; birth and death of a son, 162–3, 166
Berry, Province of, 116
Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of (1670–1734), 116, 145
Béthune, Marie Fouquet, Duchesse de (1650–1716), 10
Béthune-Charost, Armand II, Duc de (1663–1747), 66
billiards: Louis XIV’s preferred game, 40
‘black daughter’ of the King and Queen, 33
black masses, 45, 48, 59, 61
Black Prince, Edward, the (1330–76), 149
Blainville, Marquis de (son of Colbert), 21
Blenheim, Battle of (1704), 145, 150
Blois, Mlle de: see d’Orléans, Françoise Marie, Duchesse
Boileau (called Boileau-Despréaux), Nicolas (1636–1711), 107, 109f
Bolingbroke, Viscountess Marie Claire Deschamps de Marcilly (1665–1750), Marquis de Villette: married Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), 111
Bolognese school of painting, 39
Boneuil, M. de, and the Duke of Portland, 127–8
Bontemps, Alexandre (1626–1701), Louis XIV’s head valet, and his family, 25, 78, 142–3
Bordes, Père, 97
Boose, Mme: involved in poisons scandal, 55f; death by burning, 57, 60
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne (1627–1704), Bishop of Meaux from 1681: 23, 34, 43f, 76, 94, 112, 132; tutor of the Grand Dauphine, 42, 84; praises Revocation of Edict of Nantes, 95; death, 102 and Saint-Cyr, 116, 118–20; portrait, 155; quotes, 63, 157
Boucherat, Louis (1616–90), 55, 58
Boufflers, Louis-François, Marquis, later Duc and Maréchal de (1644–1711), 123, 125
Bouillon
, Emmanuel-Théodore de La Tour d’Auvergne, Duc d’AIbret (1645–1715), Cardinal de, 85f, 90
Bouillon, Marie-Anne Mancini, Duchesse de (1646–1714), 56, 58
Bouillon, Godefroid-Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne, Duc de (1641–1721), 58, 85f
Boulle (or Buhl), André-Charles (1642–1732), cabinet maker, 71
Bourbon, spa, 46, 102, 111, 143, 150
Bourbon, Louis III de Condé, Duc de (1668–1710), Monsieur le Duc, 64, 104; marries daughter of the King and Mme de Montespan, 87f; appearance and character, 88, 104; madness and death, 154, 159
Bourbon, Louise-Françoise (Mlle de Nantes), Duchesse de (1673–1743), eldest daughter of the King and Mme de Montespan, Madame la Duchesse, 47, 91, 132, 158, 159, 163, 164, 168; marries Monsieur le Duc, 87–8; nursed through smallpox by the Grande Condé, 88, 104; love for François Louis, Prince de Conti, 88–9, 152, 154
Bourbon family, 10; as parvenus, 31
Bourdaloue, Père Louis (1632–1704), preaches at court, 76, 115
Bourgogne, Louis de France, Duc de (1682–1712), eldest son of the Grand Dauphin, 41, 157, 163, 166, 169; birth, 73–4, 78; Fénelon appointed tutor to him and his brothers, 115, 120; marriage, 124, 133, 134–5; his brother Anjou’s love for him, 138; birth of a son, 145; in love with his wife, 147; character, 147, 148–50, 161; at the war, 150–2; his father’s death, 158–9; becomes Dauphin, 160; death from measles, 161–2
Bourgogne, Marie-Adélaide of Savoy, Duchesse de (1685–1712), 14, 127, 138, 154, 158–9, 160, 161; character and appearance, 133–5; lessons at Saint-Cyr, 135–6; grief at Monsieur’s death, 141; birth of a son, 145; becomes a star at court, 146; way of behaving, 146–8; and the Marquis de Maulévrier, 147; change in her character, 148; Spannheim’s estimate of her character, 149–50; insists on disgrace of Vendôme, 152; stops balls at Versailles, 155; catches measles, 161–2, 169
Boyne, Battle of the (1690), 97
Brancas, Louise-Françoise de
Clermont-Gallerande, Duchesse de, widow of Louis Antoine, Duc de Villars-Branca, 64
Brandenburg, 96
bread riots in Paris, 154
Brémond, Abbé Henri (1865–1933), 118
Bretagne, Louis, Duc de (1707–12), elder brother of Louis XV, 157, 160; catches measles and dies, 162
Breteuil (magistrate), 56
Breteuil, Louis-Nicolas Le Tonnelier, Baron de (1648–1728), 112
Brinon, Marie de (d. 1701): and the Saint-Cyr school, 160–11 passim; writes words of ‘God Save the King’, 108f; removed by a lettre de cachet, 111, 120
Brinvilliers, Antoine Gobelin, Marquis de, 54
Brinvilliers, Marie-Madeleine d’Aubray, Marquise de (1639–76), poisoner, 53f
Brouais, Comte de: defender of Lille (1667), 66
Brown, John (d. 1883): Scottish servant of Queen Victoria, 23
Brussels: flight of Comtesse de Soissons and Marquise d’Alluye to, 58
Buckingham Palace, London: author’s presentation at, 36
Bussy, Roger de Rabutin, Comte (1618–93), 57
Cabinet Doré, Versailles, 36
Calais, Pas-de-Calais, 30
Cambrai (Nord): Fénelon made Archbishop of (1695), 119f
Candida, Saint: Pope Innocent XI sends Mme de Maintenon relics of, 78; taken to Saint-Cyr, 108
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Amerighi da (c. 1570–1609), 39
Carmelite, Louise de La Vallière becomes a, 39
Carracci, Annibale (1560–1609), 39
Carracci Gallery, Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 22
Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625–1712), astronomer, 21
Cavendish, Lord, 124
Cavoye, Louis d’Oger, Marquis de (c. 1639–1716), 110
Caylus, Marthe Marguerite Le Valois de Villette de Murçay, Marquise de (1673–1729), cousin of Mme de Maintenon, 79
Cessac, Comte de: involved in poisons scandal, 56, 58
Chaillot, Convent of, 28, 31; Palais de, 28
Chambord (Loir-et-Cher), 9
Chambre Ardents (1679–82), 55f, 59f
Chamillart, Michel I (1652–1721), contrôleur-général des Finances, 1699, ministre d’état, 1700, 95, 136
Champagne, Duc de Vivonne made governor of, 30
Champs-Elysées, Paris, 23
Chantilly (Oise), 23, 86
chapel at Versailles, 155
Chapelin, abortionist, 60
Charles II (1630–85), King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1660, 16, 86, 97, 126
Charles II (1661–1700), King of Spain from 1665, 113, 122, 128–9; death, 136; leaves everything to Anjou, 137; for his wives see (1) Marie-Louise d’Orléans; (2) Maria Anna of Neuburg
Charles V (Abbé de Choisy), 149
Charles V (1500–58), Holy Roman
Emperor from 1519, King Charles I of Spain (1516–56), 14
Charles VI (Abbé de Choisy), 149
Charles VI (1685–1740), Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor from 1711, 122, 137, 145, 155, 164
Charost, Duc de, see Béthune-Charost, Duc de
Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), Bishop of: see Godet des Marais, Paul
Chartres, Duc de, see d’Orléans, Philippe II, Duc
Chartres, Duchesse de, see d’Orléans, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchesse
Château d’Anet, 151
Chateaubriand, François René, Vicomte de (1768–1848), quoted, 18, 132
Châtelet, Gabrielle-Emilie Le
Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de (1706–49), 112
Chevreuse, Charles-Honoré d’Albert, Duc de (1646–1712), 93, 118, 120; death, 166
Chevreuse, Jeanne-Marie Colbert, Duchesse de (1652–1743), 38, 93, 118, 120
childbirth, 101
Choin, Marie Thérèse Joly de (c. 1670–c. 1732): marries the Grand Dauphin, 87, 157–8, 159–60
Choisy, Abbé de, 149
Churchill, Arabella (1648–1730), sister of Marlborough, 126
Churchill, Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer: 1874–1965), 146, 151
Citizen King, see Louis-Philippe
Clagny, Château de, near Versailles, 9; Mme de Montespan’s house at, 30, 44f, 46, 50, 59, 62, 63; appropriated by the Duc du Maine, 132
Clement XI, Giovanni Francesco Albani (1649–1721), Pope from 1700, 144
Clément, surgeon, delivers the Dauphine, 72–4
Clérambault, Mme de, 101
Clermont-Chaste, François-Alphonse, Comte de (1661–1740), 56, 87
Clermont-Chaste, Comtesse de, 87
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste (1619–83), 11, 13, 18ff, 28, 63, 76, 89, 93, 136, 139, 145; descent and relations, 21; affected by the poisons scandal, 61
Colbert de Croissy: see Croissy, Charles Colbert, Marquis de
Condé (Nord), 155
Condé, Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de (1621–86), Le Grand Condé, 16f, 70, 84, 104, 136, 155; one of his cooks, 25; crossing the Rhine (1672), 66; marries his granddaughter to François-Louis, Prince de Conti, 86; marriage of his grandson to daughter of the King and Mme de Montespan, 86; she captivates him, 88; death, 105
Condé, Louis III, Prince de, see Bourbon, Louis III de Condé, Duc de
Condé family, 84
confessor of Louis XIV, see La Chaise, François de; Le Tellier, Père Michel
Constantinople, 85
Conti, Armand, Prince de (1629–66), 84
Conti, François, Louis de Bourbon,
Prince de (1664–1709), 140, 152; character, 84f; goes to fight the Turks, 85; succeeds brother, marries granddaughter of the Grand Condé, exiled from Versailles, 86, 104; restored to favour, 88f; in love with the Duchesse de Bourbon, 88; fails to secure crown of Poland, 89; death, 153–4, 159
Conti, Louis-Armand de Bourbon, Prince de (1661–95), 84; goes to fight the Turks, 85; death, 86
Conti, Louise-Marie Martinozzi, Princesse de (niece of Mazarin), 84
Conti, Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Princesse de (1666–1739), daughter of Louis XIV and Mme de la Vallière, 14, 28, 84, 86, 88, 91, 132, 134, 135, 138, 157, 159, 163, 168; refused as
wife by William III of Orange, m. to Louis-Armand, Prince de Conti, 16; on the Dauphine, 83; rebuked by the King, 84, 85; contracts smallpox, widowed at 19, 86; nurses the Dauphin in smallpox, 158
Conti, Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon-Condé, Princesse de (1666–1732), granddaughter of the Grand Condé, 87ff
Coypel, Antoine (1661–1722), artist, 155
Coysevox, Antoine (1640–1720), sculptor, 13
Crenan, Mlle de, sent to the Bastille, 86
Croissy, Charles Colbert, Marquis de (c. 1626–96), 21f, 71f, 76, 125
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1653, 126
Crozat, Antoine, Marquis du Châtel (1655–1738), financier, 151
Cuthbert, Saint (c. 635–687), 21
Dagobert, Good King (d. 639), 107
Dangeau, Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de (1638–1720), 40, 45f, 90
Dangeau, Sophia Maria of Bavaria, Gräfin von Löwenstein, Marquise de (d. 1736), 95
Danzig, 89
Darbay, François (1634–97), architect, 23
Daubray, Chief of Paris police, 53f
Dauphin, Le Grand, see Louis (1661–1711)
Dauphine, see Victoire of Bavaria
Delobel brothers, embroiderers, 65
Denain, French victory of (1712), 153, 165
Denmark, 145
Devil, the: live babies sacrificed to, 52, 57, 60, 61; personal appearance of, 58; Mme de Montespan seeks to avoid, 132; see also Satan
Dévolution, la Guerre de (1667–8), 15
Diane de Poitiers, Duchesse de Valentinois (1499–1566), 48
Divertissement at Versailles (1664), 15f, 29; (1668), 27
Domenichino (1581–1641), 39
Dordogne river, 20
Doré, Mlle, a mistress of Louis XIV, 75
Douai (Nord), captured by Villars (1712), 165
Dreux, Mme, and poisons scandal, 56f
Dunkirk (Nord), 155, 165
Dunlop, Ian, book on Versailles, 155
Esctasy of St Paul (Poussin), 80
d’Effiat, Marquis (1638–1719), favourite of Monsieur, 34, 130
Egypt, 16
Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate: see d’Orléans, Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchesse
Emperor(s), see Charles VI; Joseph I; Leopold I
d’Enghien, Mlle, see Vendôme, Duchesse de
England, 19, 34, 97f; Portland’s embassy to France, 123–31; Louis acknowledges James Francis Edward as King of, 143–4; and the War of the Spanish Succession, 145, 151, 155–6; peace preliminaries signed (1711), 164; gains, 165