Part 36

Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine de Caritat, marquis de, born in Picardy, II. 175. His scientific works, 172. _et seq._ His examination of the "Pensées de Pascal," 177. Intimacy with men of science, 178. Replies to Necker's book, 178. His edition of Voltaire, and a life of that author, 103. 178. Replies to De Lolme on the English Constitution, 179. Character of Condorcet, 179. What share he had in the French revolution, 180. Violent speech of against monarchy, 182. 184. His political writings, 182. 184. 187. Supports in his speeches the cause of liberty, 182. 184. 187. Esteemed for his integrity, 184. His metaphysical deductions, 185. His enlarged views regarding national education, 186. His vote went to save Louis XVI., 188. Denounced by Chabot, as an accomplice of Brissot, 190. His "Historical Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind," 190. His views of human perfection, 191. His epistle in verse to his wife, 192. He retires to Chamont, 192. Is discovered, and imprisoned at Bourg-la-Reine, 193. Dies of cold and hunger in jail, 193. His character as given by madame Roland, 193. His wife escaped the dangers of the revolution, 194. She wrote some philosophical works, 194.; and died in 1822, 194. Mademoiselle de Condorcet married Arthur O'Connor, 194.

Conti, Armand de Bourbon, prince of, I. 60. 68. Engaged in the civil war on the side of the Fronde, I. 60. 68. Holds out in Bordeaux and Guienne for several years, 83, n. Educated in the college of Clermont, 99. He patronizes Molière at Pezenas, 105. 106. Allusions to, 236.

Conti, the princess of, I. 286.

Conti, the prince of, entertains J. J. Rousseau, II. 159. Affords him a refuge, 162.

Corbinelli, M., account of, I. 256. His wit, 237. His letters, 245.

Corneille, Pierre, the father of French tragedy, I. 40. His parents, 40. His brother, Thomas Corneille, also a dramatist of celebrity, 41. His sister Marthe, mother of Fontenelle, 41. Taught at Rouen by Jesuits, 41. His first work, "Mélite," a comedy, 42. Mediocrity of his first dramas, 42. Corrects the plays of Richelieu, 43. His associates in that task, 43. He retires from Paris to Rouen, 43. His poems to madame Du Pont, 43. His "Medée" unsuccessful, 44. "Illusion," a comedy, 44. His genius fires with the study of Spanish dramas, 44. Reads the "Cid" of Guillen de Castro, 45. Corneille's drama of the "Cid," 45. 46. 101. Its plot and action, 101. Its renown, 47. Critique of the "Cid," by the Académie Française, 47. 48. Richelieu's observations thereon, 48. Corneille's tragedy of "Horace," 48. His tragedy of "Cinna," 49. "Polyeucte," 50. His comedy of "Le Menteur," 51. "Rodogune," 52. Ill success of "Don Sancho," "Theodore," and "Pertharite," 52. His "Essays on the Theatre," 54. His translation of the "Imitation of Jesus Christ," 54. Tragedy of "Œdipe," 54. Its success, 54. His genius afterwards unequal to his former fame, 54. Pension granted him by Louis XIV., 55. 60. Character of the great dramatist, 60. His fruitless attempts in later tragedies, 56. His "Agesilas and Attila," 57. His wife and sister described, 56. Is established in Paris, 56. Parallel of Racine and Corneille, 57. "Berenice," a subject treated by both poets, 58. Corneille less successful than his rival, 59. "Pulchérie," and "Suréna," his last plays, 59. Death of Corneille, aged seventy-nine, 59. Unison of his character with his works, 59. Public applause of the poet, 60. Eloge of, by Racine, 61. A great-niece of, adopted by Voltaire, 61, n. II. 78. His sons, I. 61. Allusions to, 262.

Corneille, Thomas, dramatic author, I. 41. Success of his "Timocrates," 56. "Le Comte d'Essex" popular, 56. He and his brother Pierre marry the demoiselles de Lamperière, 56. Harmony of the Corneille family, 56. Some quotations from, 43, n. 55, n. 59, n.

Corneille, Marthe, the mother of Fontenelle, I. 41. 56.

Cotin, l'Abbé, his death hastened by critics and satirists, I. 147. Molière's attack on, 153, 154. Boileau's satire on, 263.

Coulanges, Marie de, baronne de Chantal, mother of madame de Sévigné, I. 215.

Coulanges, Christophe de, abbé de Livry, takes charge of his orphan niece, madame de Sévigné, I. 215. His consolations afforded her on the death of the marquis her husband, 218. His death, 251.

Coulanges, M. de, cousin of madame de Sévigné, I. 232. Lawsuit of, pleaded by himself, 232. Dialogue in verse by, 232, n. Impromptu by, 235. His death, 235.

Coulanges, madame de, I. 232. Celebrated for wit and beauty, 234. 339.

Couvreur, mademoiselle, death and mode of sepulture of this actress, II. 23.

Crébillon, dramatic poet, II. 43. 50. A rival of Voltaire, 51. 57.

Cuspidius, Lucius, will of, I. 37.

D.

D'Alembert, M., proverbial saying of, I. 163. Remarks of, 334. 336. His éloge of Fénélon, 345, n. 369. 371. The Encyclopédie, II. 77. His friendship with Condorcet, 176.

D'Angeau, marquis do, I. 58. His fortune at play, 244, n.

Dauphin, the, son of Louis XIV., I. 334. 336, n.

Davenport, Mr., permits Rousseau to occupy his house at Wotton in Derbyshire, II. 160.

Denis, madame, niece of Voltaire, II. 53. 55. 58. 69. 89. 98. 99. 105.

Descartes, his celebrity for science, I. 185.

Desfontaines, the abbé, II. 31, 32.

Deshoulières, madame, her sonnet on Racine's "Phèdre," I. 312.

Des Marais, bishop of Chartres, I. 342.

Des Marets, French academician, I. 47.

Devaux, M., II. 33.

Diderot, M., writes a large portion of the Encyclopédie, II. 77. That work was condemned by the parliament and clergy, and suppressed, 77. Is confined at Vincennes for publishing a pamphlet, 133. Visited by J. J. Rousseau, 133. High reputation of, 171.

Drama, the: France indebted to Spanish tragic authors, I. 41. 45. In comedy to Lope di Vega, 51. The Greek drama not suitable to modern times, 305. Voltaire's critique on the tragedies of Sophocles, II. 15. _See_ Theatre.

Dubois, cardinal, II. 10.

Du Deffand, la marquise, letter from Voltaire to, II. 89. 103.

Dumouriez, general, minister for foreign affairs, II. 277. 278. 314.

Dupin, madame, II. 128. 129.

Duprat, chancellor, invades the privileges of the faculty at Montpellier, I. 27. The gift of tongues an introduction of Rabelais to, 27.

Dupuis, M. and madame, II. 89.

Duverdier, the Bibliothèque Française of, I. 39. His Prosographie, 39.

E.

Encyclopédie, by MM. Diderot, d'Alembert, Voltaire, and others, II. 77. 148.

Enville, duchess d', II. 81.

Epinay, madame d', II. 138. 143. 145. 164.

Etallonde, the chevalier d', II. 86. 107.

Euripides, I. 40.

F.

Fables of La Fontaine, I. 164. 178. 180. Gay's, 179. Anonymous English fables imitated from La Fontaine, 179.

Fayette, countess de la, her novel of "La Princesse de Clèves," I. 84. Her taste and erudition, 85. Friendship of the duke of Rochefoucauld for, 85. 87. Her mansion the resort of French literati, &c., 231. Her portrait or character of de Sévigné, 255.

Fénélon, François de Salignac de la Mothe, born in 1651, I. 329. His ancestry, 329. His education, 331. Takes his degree at Cahors, 331. The abbé Fénélon's sermons at nineteen applauded, 331. His strict attention to the sacerdotal duties, 332. His purpose of becoming missionary, 332. Louis XIV. desires him to convert the Huguenots, 333. Is the pupil and friend of Bossuet, 335. Writes on female education, 335. His "Telemachus," 337. 356. 371. Appointed archbishop of Cambrai, 339. Is deceived by the zeal and pretended visions of madame Guyon, 340. Declines approval of Bossuet's condemnation of her, 343. Louis XIV. did not like Fénélon, 345, n. Exiled to his diocese, 346. 360. His "Exposition des Maximes des Saints sur la vie intérieure," 344. The pope condemns the book, 352. Controversy on this subject among the great prelates, 344. 350. Fénélon's letters, 360. His religious principles, 362. _et passim._ Is visited by the duke of Burgundy at Cambrai, 364. His active charity, 365. Louis XIV. becomes sensible of his unjust treatment of this great prelate, 366. The archbishop's sickness and death, 367. His character, 368. 370. His conversation, 368. Ramsay, a Scottish baronet, describes his habits and disposition, 369. 370. His dialogues on eloquence, 372. Political views in his "Telemachus," 373.

Fénélon, marquis de, I. 331. 367.

Ferney, château of, Voltaire's seclusion at the, II. 76. Visitors to, 90. Marmontel, 91. Countess de Genlis, 96.

Ferney, village of, II. 101.

Fleuri, cardinal de, II. 32. 42. 44. His death.

Fleury, abbé de, sous-précepteur of the princes, I. 336.

Fontaine, _see_ La Fontaine, I. 150. &c.

Fontenelle, nephew of Corneille, I. 41. Observations by, on La Fontaine, 178.

Fouquet, minister of finance, incites Pierre Corneille to write "Œdipe," a tragedy, I. 54. His mistake in entertaining his monarch too sumptuously, 111. Offends mademoiselle de la Vallière. 112. Louis XIV. restrains his anger during the fête given by the financier, 113. His disgrace, 162. Is brought to trial, 222. Imprisoned in Pignerol until his death in 1680, 224. His correspondence seized, 224.

France, the civil war between Catholics and Huguenots, I. 11. Consequences of civil war, the rise of statesmen and warriors, and next of poets and authors, 41. Events on the death of Louis XIII., 64. Corruption of manners, 67. Condé and Turenne defeat the Spaniards, 67. Broils and adventures in the contest of the Fronde against Mazarin and the court, 70. 75. The kingdom suffers in commerce, learning, arts and sciences; and demoralization a further consequence of civil war, 77. Licentiousness resulting from the war, 104. French manners liable to ridiculous interpretation, 109. Molière lashes these foibles, 109. Anecdotes descriptive of the state of society, 171. 217. 230. II. 45. Literature not good at the commencement of Louis XIV.'s reign, I. 262. War of the Spanish succession, 362. Invasion of Flanders, 364. The nation vain, and fond of glory, II. 21. Intolerance of the clergy of, 99. 108.

Franceuil, M., his friendship for J. J. Rousseau, II. 128. 129. 135.

Francis I., court of, I. 27. 30. He protects Rabelais against the Sorbonne, 32.

Franciscan order, the, I. 24.

Frederic the Great, king of Prussia, his correspondence with Voltaire, II. 35. He visits Strasbourg, 39. Voltaire's interview with Frederic at the castle of Clèves, 39. Description of the monarch, 39. 41. He attacks the principles of Machiavelli, 40. He seizes on Silesia, 42. Concludes peace with the empress Maria Theresa, 46. Negotiations with France, 47. The king welcomes Voltaire to Potsdam, and grants him a place and a pension, 57-65. Appoints Maupertuis, president of the Royal Academy, 54. Refuses permission to Voltaire to quit his service, 67. Their interview, 67. Reconciliation effected, 68. Frederic sends to Voltaire at Frankfort for a volume of the king's poems, 69. Voltaire's arrest until he can receive the volume left at Leipsic, 69. Frederic defeated in battle, addresses an epistle in verse to Voltaire, 73. He gains two victories, 74. His opinion of Voltaire's powers of conversation, 90. Invites J. J. Rousseau to Berlin, 157.

French language: affected and extravagant style of Mlle. de Scudéri and others of the Hôtel Rambouillet, I. 107. 108.

Fronde, civil war of the, described, I. 68. &c. Great men of this party enumerated, 69. The new and old Fronde, 74. Character of the times of the Fronde, 95. 96. _See_ Life of Rochefoucauld.

Furetière, abbé, his Dictionary, I. 168. Anger of against the French Academy, 168.

G.

Galen, edition of, by Rabelais, I. 26. 28. "Ars Medicinalis" of, 37.

Galileo, his investigation of atmospheric laws, I. 191.

Gallanous, Peter, controversy of respecting Aristotle, I. 31.

Gamache, viscountess de (Eléanore de Montaigne), I. 21.

"Gargantua, the Giant, and Pantagruel," of Rabelais, I. 31. Supposed personages pourtrayed in, 32. Editions thereof, 38.

Gascony and Guienne, character of the people of, I. 1.

Gassendi, astronomer and mathematician, instructs Chapelle and Molière, I. 99.

Gaussin, Mademoiselle, celebrated and beautiful actress, II. 22.

Gauthier Garguille, excellent comedian, I. 101.

Gay's Fables, comparison of La Fontaine's with, I. 179.

Geneva, residence of "Les Délices" acquired by Voltaire near to, II. 71. 74. 75. Quits it for the château de Ferney, on the adjacent French territory, 76. Rousseau's early years passed at Geneva, 112. Kind reception of him at a later period by his countrymen, 137. Voltaire and d'Alembert desirous of softening the tone of society in, by establishing dramatic, representations, 149. Rousseau replies to their article for that object in the Encyclopédie, 149. Ferment at, in which the writings of Rousseau were concerned, 157.

Genlis, countess de, narrates her visit to Voltaire at Ferney, II. 94. Rousseau offended by, 167.

Gex, town of, II. 100.

Gibbon, Edward, esq. the historian, an admirer of mademoiselle Churchod, the mother of madame de Staël, II. 296. 305.

Gilbert, tragedy of "Rodogune" by, I. 53.

Ginguené, M., criticisms of, I. 34.

Goldsmith, Oliver, opinions relative to his conversation, I. 182.

Gournay le Jars, Marie de, I. 20. Publishes the Essays of Montaigne, who had treated her as a daughter by adoption, 21.

Gourville, secretary to de la Rochefoucauld, I. 67. 70. 78. 79. His Memoirs referred to, 84. 120.

Graffigny, madame de, II. 26. 30. 33.

Grammont, count de, espouses miss Hamilton, I. 119.

Greek, Rabelais familiar with, I. 38.

Greek tragedy, unities of the, I. 45. 49. 52.

Grignan, count de, his marriage, I. 227. Praise of him by madame de Sévigné, 227. He repairs to Provence as lieutenant-governor, 228.

Grignan, countess de, daughter of madame, de Sévigné, educated by her mother, II. 218. Is presented at court, 225. Appeared at the fêtes of Versailles, 226. Her beauty celebrated by Benserade, 226. Accepts the hand of the count de Grignan, a widower, 227. Accompanies her husband to Provence, 228. Portraiture of the countess, 229. Visits of madame de Sévigné to her in Provence, 228. 241. Madame de Grignan attends her mother in Paris when ill, 245. But returns to Provence herself in ill health, 246. Renewed journeys to see her mother, and to Provence, 246. 247. 249. Her children, 248. Is on terms of affection with her mother, 250. Attended in sickness by her mother, 254.

Grignan, marquis de, their son, I. 230, n. 250. 251. 254. 258.

Grignan, chevalier de, an uncle, I. 246. His family, 246. 247.

Grignan, Pauline de, daughter of the countess, I. 248, n. 251. She marries the marquis de Simiane, 254. 258.

Grimm, baron de. Correspondence of, I. 63. II. 103. J. J. Rousseau's friendship for, 144. Account of the baron, 145. His report as to Rousseau, 164. 171.

Gros Guillaume, comedian, I. 101.

Gros René, comedian, I. 102.

Gros René, madame, actress, I. 102.

Guibert, count de, II. 98.

Guise, duke of, assassinated at Blois, I. 11.

Guyon, madame, enthusiasm or mysticism of, I. 340. _et seq._ Her fervour occasions the disgrace of Fénélon, 342. He speaks in her cause to Bossuet, 342. Her party punished, 343.

H.

Hamilton, la belle, countess of Grammont, I. 119.

Hardy, early French dramatic author, I. 41.

Harlay de, archbishop of Paris, I. 140. 333.

Harpe, La, M., critical remarks of I. 178. 258. II. 102.

Helvetius, M., II. 171. Madame Roland's opinion as to, 263.

Henrietta of England, duchess of Orléans, I. 58. 308. Her death, 164.

Henry, king of Navarre, I. 11.

Henry IV. king of France, I. 11. Character of his court warlike and unlettered, 41. The "Henriade" a history of this great monarch and his times, II. 12.

Herbault, Puits d', monk of Fontevrault, I. 31.

Hippocrates, edited or translated by Rabelais, I. 26. 28. 37. His system, 26.

Holland, lord, on the Spanish Drama, &c., I. 45, n.

Houdetot, countess d', II. 128. Her visit to J. J. Rousseau at the Hermitage, 141.

Huguenots, blame attached by Montaigne to their party, I. 12. Oppression of the, 257. Bourdaloue sent into the south to convert protestants, 257, n. Fénélon commissioned to convert the Huguenots, 333. Out of the pale of the Romish church, 339. II. 79. The _dragonnades_, 79. 87.

Hume, David, persuades Rousseau to visit England, II. 159. Is indignant at the folly and jealousies of Jean Jacques, 162.

I.

Innocent X., condemns the five propositions on grace and election, said to be from the book on Augustin by Jansenius, I. 200.

Intolerance, cases of, II. 79. 83. 85.

J.

James II., arrival of, in France, I. 251.

Jansenius, Cornelius, bishop of Ypres, five propositions selected by the Jesuits from his work on St. Augustin, and condemned by the Sorbonne, I. 200.

Jansenists, origin of the, I. 200. Controversies respecting the abbé Arnaud, 200.; and the Lettres Provinciales, 207. Praise of education by the Jansenists, 298. Their spirit of controversy, 339. Fénélon opposed to Jansenism, 362. Persecution of the, II. 87.

Jesuits, order of, I. 200. 207. They employ themselves particularly in education, 298. Polemical spirit infused by the religious orders, and an apathy for the affairs of this world, 298. Banishment of the, II. 87.

Jordan, Mrs., her excellent taste, and vivacity in comedy, I. 117.

Jura Mountains, peasants of the, II. 100.

K.

Keith, lord, his regard for Rousseau, II. 157.

Kœnig, Prussian mathematician, II. 65.

L.

La Beaumelle, his attack on Voltaire in Prussia, II. 66.

La Bruyère, his critique on Rabelais, I. 34. Describes Corneille's conversation and manner, 55. His portrait of La Fontaine, 181.

La Fare, anacreontic poet, I. 171.

La Fontaine, Jean de, versifier of Rabelais' Tales, I. 34. His life peaceful, 150. Born in 1621 at Château Thierry, 150. His father, 151. He enters the community of the Pères de l'Oratoire, 151. Renounces the cloister, and espouses Mlle. Marie d'Héricart, 151. Becomes master of the royal domains in his district, 151. Hears Malherbe's ode on the assassination of Henri IV., and commences poet, 152. Studies the Roman poets, 153. Verses by, 112. His "Adonis" in heroic verse, 155. His character indolent and _insouciant_, 155. Resides long at Château Thierry, 155. Fights M. Poignan, on account of madame de la Fontaine, 156. That officer disarms the poet both of sword and jealousy, 156. Divers reports as to the placid temper of his wife, 157. Visits Paris, but neglects business, 157. Becomes domiciled with the duke and duchess of Bouillon, 159. His intimacy with Racine, Molière, and Boileau, 160. Comfortable amid Parisian society, he forgets his wife and his home, 161. Fouquet grants him a pension, 162. He solicits that finance minister's pardon from Louis XIV., 162. 222. His "Contes et Merveilles en vers," 163. 173. Tale of "Pysche and Cupid," 163. 177. Noticed by Henrietta duchess of Orléans. 164. His tale of "Joconde," 165. His "Fables," 164. 178. 180. Is elected of the French Academy, 167. Anecdote on that subject, 167. He has the ill luck to displease the abbé Furetière by an inadvertence, 168. La Fontaine incorrigibly forgetful, 169. Forgets that he has a son, and admires him as a stranger, 169. Anecdotes exhibiting him, 170, &c. Resides in the house of madame d'Hervart, 172. 170. Decline of his health, 173. The priests constrain him to destroy some of his works, 173. And to make public reparation for the evil influence of his "Fables," 175. He recovers and writes more tales, 176. Dies, aged seventy-four, 176. Criticism on his works, 177. His dramatic pieces, 178. His tables and tales, 178. 180. English fables compared with, 179. Opinions by his contemporaries of, 181. Epitaph by himself, 182.

La Harpe, M., criticisms of, I. 178. 258. II. 102.

Lally-Tolendal, M. de, saved by madame de Staël, II. 315. 316.

Lamb, Miss, pretty song by, I. 108.

La Metrie, physician at Potzdam, II. 62.

Lamoignon, M. de, premier président, I. 267. 271.

Langeron, the abbé de, I. 366. "Langey, Chevalier de, Military Stratagems and Prowess of," by Rabelais, I. 37.

La Noue, tragedian, II. 43.

Leibnitz, letter of the celebrated, II. 65.

Le Kain, tragedian, II. 54. He resides with Voltaire, and performs on his stage, 54.

Le Nôtre, architect, &c., I. 112.

Lettres Provinciales of Pascal, I. 198. Object of this work explained, 201. Condemnation of the book, 207. Misfortunes resulting therefrom at Port Royal, 207.

L'Huilier, M., engages Gassendi to educate Chapelle the poet, I. 99.

Ligne, prince de, visits Rousseau incognito, II. 165. Declares himself by letter, and kindly offers a home to J. J. Rousseau, 166.

Locke, John, works of, II. 18. 24. His "Treatise on Education," 151.

Longueville, duke of, I. 69.

Longueville, duchess of, I. 68. Her beauty, 70. Various allusions to this princess, 72. 74. 77. Her character and religious sentiments, 83, n.

Louis XIII., accession of, I. 64. Death of, 66. M. Poquelin and his son Molière his deputy, valet-de-chambre to, 100. The king causes M. de Cinq-Mars and De Thou to be beheaded, 100. Allusions to this monarch, 215.

Louis XIV., grants a pension to Pierre Corneille, I. 55. His attachment to Henrietta duchess of Orléans, 58. Splendour of his court begins to be remarkable, 111. Takes a part in the ballets at court, 118. 119. Discontinues to do so, from a passage in "Britannicus" alluding to Nero, 118, n. His journeys, 120. Flattery of by the poets and savants, 163. Did not comprehend La Fontaine, 164. And delays his ratification of his being received in the French Academy, 167. Trial of Fouquet, finance minister, 112. 113. 222. 223. The king refuses to pardon him, 224. The fêtes at Versailles, 225. 256. Tournament at, Louis representing count Roger, 225. His affection for the beautiful La Vallière, 112. 119. 162. 225. 236. His court described, 244, n. His queen, 236. Secret marriage with madame de Maintenon, 87. 236. 237. 248. His reign, animadversions on, 257. 323. Age of Louis XIV. described, 269. Louis XIV. conceives a dislike for Fénélon, 333. 346. Perceives his injustice, but burns his papers, 366. Anecdotes of the king, 319. 323. Preceptors to his son and grand-sons, 334. 336, n. The Gallican church, its state in the reign of Louis XIV., 339-362. References to Louis XIV., in the life of Voltaire, II. 6. 10.

Louis XV., I. 368. II. 44. 46. 47. 55. 57. 60. His inglorious old age, 101.

Louis XVI., II. 86. 100. 104. _For the historical events of his reign and fall, see the Lives of Condorcet, Mirabeau, &c._ in Vol. II.

Love and gallantry, novels breathing of, I. 107. 108. Ill taste of language relating to, 108. Purity of sentiment aimed at nevertheless, 108.

Lucian, by whom imitated, I. 35.

Lucretius, II. 144.

Lulli, musical composer, solicits La Fontaine to write the opera of "Daphne," I. 166. His death described, 176.

Luxembourg, maréchal duc de, II. 149. His kind attentions to his neighbour Jean Jacques Rousseau, 150.

Luxembourg, duchess of, II. 150. 152. Her conduct with regard to Rousseau, when he was danger of arrest, 153.

Lyons, almanacs calculated under the meridian of, I. 37.

M.

Machiavelli, studied by La Fontaine, I. 154. Frederic the Great's work against the principles of, II. 40.

Maillezieux, bishop of, correspondence of Rabelais with the, I. 28. 30. "Letters from Italy" to, 37.

Maine, duchess du, festivities at her château of Sceaux, II. 48.

Maintenon, madame de, I. 87. Her portrait of the duke de la Rochefoucauld, 88. Her friendship for madame de Coulanges, 234. Anecdotes of, 236. 237. 248. 282. 283. 320. 322. 323. Her estate of Maintenon, II. 21.

Mairet, his tragedy of "Sophonisbe," I. 44.

Malesherbes, M. de, Rousseau's correspondence with, II. 136. His benevolent attentions to Rousseau, 151. 152.

Manardi, Medical Epistles of, I. 37.

Mancini, nieces of cardinal Mazarin, I. 159. 172.

Marmontel, M., his visit to Voltaire at Ferney, II. 90-94.

Marot, Clément, admired by La Fontaine, I. 154.

Marsillac, prince de, I. 65. His advice to the duchess de Chevreuse, 66. _See_ Duke de la Rochefoucauld.

Marsillac, prince de, son of the above, assists the duke of Rochefoucauld in the battle of St. Antoine, I. 81. Espouses his cousin, Mlle. de la Roche-Guyon, 83. Attends the duke his father in his last illness, 89.