The Decline of the Age of Louis Xiv |
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Projet dune Dime royale | 12 |
The State Apartments | 18 |
The aqueduct | 24 |
II | 26 |
Daily life of Louis XIV | 37 |
CHAPTER III | 45 |
La Bruyères character Publication of Les Caractères | 55 |
Revolutionary note Sympathy with the poor | 177 |
Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé | 183 |
Of Mme de Murat and Mlle LHéritier | 189 |
His verse | 198 |
SaintSimons Memoirs His sources of information | 200 |
Her relations with Cardinal des Noailles | 224 |
Fénelons De lÉducation des Filles | 233 |
Education at SaintCyr | 239 |
Plan of his book | 66 |
119 | 72 |
CHAPTER IV | 75 |
Character of La Bruyères portraits | 81 |
Tragedy | 83 |
Conversation Women Financiers | 88 |
LHomme à bonne fortune | 90 |
Conduct of the play | 98 |
Dancourt | 101 |
Traitants | 106 |
Samuel Bernard Turcaret | 112 |
Marine Frontin Lisette | 121 |
His life | 124 |
Les Folies amoureuses Les Ménechmes | 128 |
Destouches General character of the French comedy of manners | 137 |
Cafés Rousseau and the Café Laurent | 151 |
CHAPTER VI | 160 |
His first attempts | 162 |
Dumass debt to Courtilz | 166 |
Pessimism | 293 |
Sermon Sur le Bonheur des Justes | 305 |
The Petit Carême | 311 |
CHAPTER X | 317 |
Apology for the Christian Faith | 330 |
The great age of Classicism | 331 |
First and second dialogues | 337 |
Review of the Quarrel | 346 |
Reconciliation of Mme Dacier and La Motte | 349 |
Poussinists and Rubenists | 355 |
His style | 357 |
His parallel between atheists and pagans | 385 |
27 | 386 |
His importance in the history of French thought | 387 |
Its merits and defects | 413 |
Influence of books of travel | 434 |
Le Diable boiteux | 437 |
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