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The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr

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Index 323

LIST OF

PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS.

	Madame, Élisabeth-Charlotte, Princess Palatine, Duchesse
	d’Orléans	Frontispiece

	By Rigaud (Hyacinthe); in the Brunswick gallery. This is the
	picture Madame mentions in her letters; this reproduction is from
	the copy which she promised to send to her sister Louise, Countess
	Palatine; the original portrait is at Versailles.

Chapter		Page

I.	Saint-Cloud, Château and Park of	42

	From a photograph by Neurdin, Paris.

II.	Fontainebleau. Louis XIV. and Escort, hunting	64

	By Van der Meulen (Adam Franz); painted by order of the king;
	in the Louvre.

III.	Marie-Anne-Victoire de Bavière, Dauphine, Wife of
	Monseigneur, with her Sons	96

	The Duc de Bourgogne carries a lance; the Duc d’Anjou (Philippe
	V.) holds a dog; the Duc de Berry is on his mother’s lap; by Mignard
	(Pierre); in the Louvre.

IV.	Louise de Bourbon, “Mme. la Duchesse”	124

	By Largillière (Nicolas de); Versailles.

V.	Marie-Thérèse, Infanta of Spain, Wife of Louis XIV.	154

	By Velasquez (Diego Rodriguez da Silva y); in the Prado gallery,
	Madrid.

V.	René Descartes	168

	By Franz Halz; in the Louvre.

VI.	Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne	182

	Painter’s name not obtained; probably Santerre; in the Royal
	palace at Turin; photographed by permission from the original for
	this edition.

VII.	Madame de Maintenon	216

	Head of the portrait painted for Saint-Cyr by Mignard; now in
	the Louvre.

X.	Louis XIV. at Marly	300

	By Geuslain (Charles); Versailles.

CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME,

ÉLISABETH-CHARLOTTE, PRINCESS PALATINE,
MOTHER OF THE REGENT.

INTRODUCTION BY C.-A. SAINTE-BEUVE.

“I am very frank and very natural, and I say all that I have in my heart.” That is the motto that ought to be placed upon the correspondence of Madame, which was chiefly written in German and published from time to time in voluminous extracts at Strasburg and beyond the Rhine. This correspondence, translated by fragments, was made into a volume and called, very improperly, the “Memoirs of Madame.” Coming after other memoirs of the celebrated women of the great century, it ran singularly counter to them in tone, and caused great surprise. Now that the Memoirs of Saint-Simon have been published in full, I will not say that the pages of the chronicle we owe to Madame have paled, but they have ceased to astonish. They are now recognized as good, naïve pictures, somewhat