p. 210

THE ABBE SCARRON.

An Eastern Allegory.--Who comes Here?--A Mad Freak and its
Consequences.--Making an Abbe of him.--The May-Fair of
Paris.--Scarron's Lament to Pellisson.--The Office of the
Queen's Patient.--'Give me a Simple Benefice.'--Scarron's
Description of Himself.--Improvidence and Servility.--The
Society at Scarron's.--The Witty Conversation.--Francoise
D'Aubigne's Debut.--The Sad Story of La Belle
Indienne.--Matrimonial Considerations.--'Scarron's Wife will
live for ever.'--Petits Soupers.--Scarron's last Moments.--A
Lesson for Gay and Grave. p. 235

FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT AND THE DUC DE SAINT-SIMON.

Rank and Good Breeding.--The Hotel de Rochefoucault.--Racine and
his Plays.--La Rochefoucault's Wit and Sensibility.--Saint-Simon's
Youth.--Looking out for a Wife.--Saint-Simon's Court Life.--The
History of Louise de la Valliere.--A mean Act of Louis
Quatorze.--All has passed away.--Saint-Simon's Memoirs of His
Own Time. p. 253

SUBJECTS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I.

PAGE

WHARTON'S ROGUISH PRESENT (_Frontispiece_)

VILLIERS IN DISGUISE--THE MEETING WITH HIS SISTER 14

DE GRAMMONT'S MEETING WITH LA BELLE HAMILTON 74

BEAU FIELDING AND THE SHAM WIDOW 85

A SCENE BEFORE KENSINGTON PALACE--GEORGE II. AND QUEEN CAROLINE 172

POPE AT HIS VILLA--DISTINGUISHED VISITORS 194

A ROYAL ROBBER 217

DR. JOHNSON AT LORD CHESTERFIELD'S 226

SCARRON AND THE WITS--FIRST APPEARANCE OF LA BELLE INDIENNE 247

PREFACE.

When Grace and Philip Wharton found that they had pleased the world with
their "Queens of Society," they very sensibly resolved to follow up
their success with a companion work. Their first book had been all about
women; the second book should be all about men. Accordingly they set to
work selecting certain types that pleased them; they wrote a fresh
collection of pleasant essays and presented the reading public with
"Wits and Beaux of Society". The one book is as goo