Chapter 12

Scudery, Mlle de, 39, 45

Sedan, 153

Segrais, 35, 50 _n_

Séguier (Chancellor), 30

Seneca, 43

Seven Years War, 106

Sévigné, Mme de, 34, 39 _n_, 40 _n_, 45 _n_, quoted, 48-50

Seyres, Hippolyte de, 107-110

Shaftesbury, Third Earl, 126

Shakespeare, quoted, 6, 30

Singlin, Antoine, 22

Société des Gens de Lettres, 138

_Spectator_, the, 88, 89

Spinoza, 33

Steele, Sir Richard, 89

Stephen, Sir Leslie, 34

Stevenson, R.L., 78, 101, 165

Suard, 99, 121

Sully, 129

Tailly-sur-Meuse, 143, 148

Tallemont des Réaux, 22

Temple, Sir William, 118, 126

Theophrastus, 69-71, 88

Thiange, Mme de, 46, 47

Torquet, M. Charles, 165

Turin, 102

Valincourt, 64

Vauban, Sebastien de, 84 _n_.

Vauvenargues, Marquis de, 97-132; birth and parentage, 99-101; described as "Clazomène," 121; serves in the Bohemian campaign, 98, 107, 109, 112, in garrison at Arras, 113; in garrison at Metz, 106, 113, in Paris, 120, with Villars in Lombardy, 102; his "Éloge" on De Seyres, 109, his "Discours sur la Gloire," 109, his "Introduction à la Connaissance de l'Esprit humain," 124, his "Réflexions sur divers Sujets," 104, 117, 121, 127

Verdun, 144

Vernulius, 28

Verteuil, 19, 20, 48

Vigneul de Marville, 60, 61 _n_.

Villars, Marshal de, 102, 129

Violand, Camille, 151, 155-160

Virton, Battle of, 144, 157

Vivonne, Andrée de, 10

Voiture, 8

Voltaire, 40, 84, 101 _n_, 111-114, quoted, 33, 52, 75, 122, 123

Vouziers, 155

Young's "Night-Thoughts," 110