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xxiii, 323 pages : 20 portrait (includingfrontispiece) ; 23 cm |
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Childhood, youth, and marriage of Francoise D'Augbigne (1635-1652) -- Madame Scarron -- Religious reform in the seventeenth century -- Madame De Maintenon -- The anonymous Queen of France -- Versailles-Revocation of the edict of Nantes -- Saint-Cyr-Pope Innocent XI-The Stuarts-The war of the Grand Alliance -- Fenelon -- Madame de Maintenon and Quietism - A religious controversy -- The Duc and the Duchesse De Bourgogne -- The spanish sucession -- Death of "Monseieur"-Faults of Louis XIV- Philip V. in Spain -- The Princesse Des Ursins -- Madame Des Ursisn in Spain - Bouffles in Fladers-Villards-Blenheim-Madame de Ursins' recall and triumph, 1702-1705 -- Turin, 1706- Ramillies - Berwick and Duc D'Orleans in Spain-The Duc De Bourgogne in Fladers, 1708-Disgrace of the Duc D'Orleans-The Great Winter of 1709 -- Failure of the negotiations, 1709-Chamillart's fall-Malplaquet, 1709-Spain saved, 1710-Villars at denain, 1712-Utrecht, 1713- Rastadt and Baden, 1714 -- The harvest of death at Versailles -- The last struggle against Jansenism-The destruction of Port Royal, 1709-The bull unigenitus,1713 -- The end-Louis XIV, September 1, 1715-Madame De Maintenon, April 15, 1719 |
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Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
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Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. |
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Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
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Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719. |
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France -- Court and courtiers.
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France. |
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Courts and courtiers. |
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France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789.
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