The Decline of the Age of Louis Xiv |
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
FÉNELON | 26 |
The Duc and the Duchesse de Bourgogne and other portraits | 32 |
Gambling | 38 |
CHAPTER III | 45 |
La Bruyères character Publication of Les Caractères | 51 |
The fashion for portraits | 57 |
Revolutionary note Sympathy with the poor | 63 |
Mme de Maintenon considered as a letterwriter | 224 |
Mme de Maintenons work at SaintCyr | 232 |
Its success and influence | 238 |
9 | 244 |
His individuality | 245 |
Fénelons Fables | 252 |
The apogee of the reign Disappearance of the great | 254 |
His descriptive style | 259 |
Condition of pulpit oratory in Paris | 67 |
Of Molière | 69 |
I | 71 |
The formation of the ComédieFrançaise | 75 |
Longepierre Crébillon | 81 |
Le Mercure galant Ésope à la Cour | 88 |
Les Bourgeoises à la Mode | 95 |
Conduct of the play III | 98 |
Dancourts chief types | 103 |
Traitants | 106 |
Crispin Rival de son Maître | 109 |
Samuel Bernard Turcaret | 113 |
Regnard | 121 |
His merits and his limitations | 127 |
LEsprit de Contradiction La Réconciliation normande | 133 |
Fénelon as a preacher | 137 |
Mme de La Suze Mme Deshoulières | 139 |
Le genre marotique | 145 |
La Fare and his poetry | 151 |
Cafés Rousseau and the Café Laurent | 154 |
2 | 160 |
Bayle and Courtilz Mme dAulnoy | 166 |
Bernier Jean Thévenot Chardin | 172 |
Voyage et Avantures de François Leguat | 178 |
Contes du temps passé | 184 |
Pétis de La Croix and Les Mille et Un Jours | 190 |
5 | 191 |
Mémoires de Gramont | 194 |
7 | 200 |
Her daily routine | 206 |
Correspondence with her brother | 212 |
With the Princesse des Ursins | 218 |
12 | 263 |
Fénelon and Bossuet | 265 |
SaintSimons portrait | 271 |
Fénelon as a critic of literature | 277 |
To Mme de Montbéron | 284 |
To the Abbé de Beaumont and the Marquis de Fénelon | 290 |
13 | 291 |
His style | 296 |
15 | 297 |
CHAPTER X | 317 |
The great age of Classicism | 323 |
La Fontaine Racine and Boileau | 329 |
Perraults Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes | 335 |
The reconciliation Perraults fifth dialogue | 341 |
17 | 342 |
Mme Daciers attack on La Motte La Motte and Fénelon | 347 |
19 | 351 |
Le goût | 353 |
The apartments of the queen and the royal family | 359 |
His importance in the history of French thought | 387 |
His parallel between atheists and pagans | 392 |
CHAPTER II | 397 |
His education and literary début | 398 |
Histoire des Oracles and De lOrigine des Fables | 409 |
His scientific studies The Académie des Sciences | 416 |
SaintSimons Memoirs His sources of information | 417 |
Fontenelles position and character | 422 |
His Projet de Paix and Discours sur la Polysynodie | 428 |
Extraordinary Voyages | 434 |
Memoirs | 440 |
445 | |
449 | |
Common terms and phrases
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