. LOUIS XVI., M. DE CALONNE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF NOTABLES.
CHAPTER LX. LOUIS XVI., CONVOCATION OF THE STATES-GENERAL. 1787-1789.

List of Illustrations

The Grand Monarch in his State Robes----9

Madame de La Valliere----10

Madame de Montespan 12

The Iron Mask----14

Bed-chamber Etiquette----15

Madame de Maintenon and the Duchess of Burgundy.----27

Death of Madame de Maintenon.----34

The King Leaving the Death-bed of Monseigneur----36

Louis XIV. In Old Age----47

The Death-bed of Louis XIV.----50

Versailles at Night----52

The Regent Orleans----54

The Bed of Justice----57

John Law----62

La Rue Quincampoix---68

The Duke and Duchess of Maine----71

Cardinal Dubois----78

Peter the Great and Little Louis XV.----82

Belzunce Amid the Plague-Stricken----96

The Boy King and his People----104

Death of the Regent---107

Louis XV.----110

Cardinal Fleury--110

Mary Leczinska----121

Death of Plelo----130

"Moriamur Pro Rege Nostro."----142

Louis XV. and his Councillors----148

Louis XV. and the Ambassador of Holland----151

Marshal Saxe 154

Battle of Fontenoy----157

Brussels----159

The Citadel of Namur----161

Arrest of Charles Edward----166

Dupleix----168

La Bourdonnais----170

Dupleix Meeting the Soudhabar of The Deccan----174

Death of the Nabob Of The Carnatic----174

Lally at Pondicherry----184

Champlain----190

Death of General Braddock----203

Death of Wolfe----209

Madame de Pompadour----215

Attack on Fort St. Philip----218

Assassination of Louis XV. by Damiens----221

Death of Chevalier D'Assas----233

Antwerp----234

"France, Thy Parliament Will Cut off Thy Head Too!"--249

Defeat of the Corsicans at Golo----256

Montesquieu----269

Fontenelle----274

Voltaire----277

The Rescue of "La Henriade."----283

Arrest of Voltaire----298

Diderot----314

Alembert----317

Diderot and Catherine II.----321

Buffon 323

Rousseau and Madame D'Epinay----338

Louis XVI.----347

Turgot's Dismissal----367

Destruction of the Tea----378

Suffren----413

The Reading of "Paul and Virginia."----427

Necker Hospital----432

Marie Antoinette 456

"There Are My Sledges, Sirs."----458

Lavoisier----465

Cardinal Rohan's Discomfiture----470

Arrest of the Members----502

Genealogical Tables----545

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