The Decline of the Age of Louis Xiv

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Contents

CHAPTER I
1
II
4
The fermiers Economic and financial distress
7
Projet dune Dime royale
15
Daily life of Louis XIV
19
The apartments of the queen and the royal family
24
Amusements
37
CHAPTER III
45
45
245
Fénelons Fables
252
17
257
His descriptive style
259
Fénelon and Mme Guyon
266
Visit of Bossuets secretary
272
18
273
Lettre sur les occupations de lAcadémie
278

La Bruyères character Publication of Les Caractères
55
Revolutionary note Sympathy with the poor
62
Condition of pulpit oratory in Paris
67
Apology for the Christian Faith
68
Influence on the eighteenth century
74
The formation of the ComédieFrançaise
76
Le Mercure galant Ésope à la Cour
89
Conduct of the play
98
Dancourt
104
Traitants
106
Samuel Bernard Turcaret
112
Lesage and the Théâtre de la Foire
118
His life
124
Decline of lyrical poetry
139
Le genre marotique
145
La Fare and his poetry
151
Cafés Rousseau and the Café Laurent
154
CHAPTER VI
160
His Memoirs
162
Bayle and Courtilz Mme dAulnoy
166
ŵ t w
172
SaintSimons Memoirs His sources of information
177
Voyage et Avantures de François Leguat
178
Contes du temps passé
184
Pétis de La Croix and Les Mille et Un Jours
190
Mémoires de Gramont
194
CHAPTER VII
200
10
203
43
206
14
209
Correspondence with her brother
212
With the Princesse des Ursins
218
Mme de Maintenon considered as a letterwriter
224
15
225
Mme de Maintenons work at SaintCyr
232
Its success and influence
238
16
241
Sermon Sur le Bonheur des Justes
281
To Mme de Montbéron
285
19
289
To the Chevalier Destouches
291
Funeral orations
298
20
305
The Petit Carême
311
CHAPTER X
317
21
321
The great age of Classicism
323
22
337
First and second dialogues
338
Review of the Quarrel
346
Reaction from the more extreme views of the moderns
352
23
353
His importance in the history of French thought
359
Critique générale de lHistoire de Calvinisme
366
24
369
Nouvelles de la République des Lettres
372
Dismissal from his professorship
379
25
385
His appeal to Faith How far sincere?
391
His limitations His love of tolerance
393
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397
Dialogues des Morts
399
Histoire des Oracles and De lOrigine des Fables
409
His scientific studies The Académie des Sciences
416
27
417
Fontenelles position and character
422
His Projet de Paix and Discours sur la Polysynodie
428
28
433
Extraordinary Voyages
434
Memoirs
440
46
445
29
447
Le Chevalier à la Mode
448
62
453

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