Ninon de l'Enclos and her century
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A Fashionable Water-cure Resort—M. de Roquelaure and his Friends—Louis le Grand—“A Favourite with the Ladies”—The Broken Sword—A _Billet-doux_—La Vallière and la Montespan—The Rebukes from the Pulpit—Putting to the Test—_Le Tartufe_—The Triumphs of Molière—The Story of Clotilde.