Paris, Gaston, 135

Parma, French victory at, 102

Pascal, xviii, 22, 23, 32, 33, 35, 55, 81, 113, 115, 122, 127, 128

Peguy, 146

Petitot, 19

Phelippeaux, Abbe, 87, 88

Picq, Col. Ardent du 147, 148

Pierrepont, 136

Pin, Abbe Ellies du, 92

Plessis, Mme du, 36

Plutarch's "Lives," 99, 100

Pompadour, Mme de, 114

Port Royal, 22, 23, 27, 28, 36, 86

Prague, capture of, 107

Quercy, 155

Quimper,157, 158

Racine, xix, 35, 47, 122, 123

Rambouillet, Hotel de, 7

Regnier, Henri, 20

Retz, Cardinal de, 10, 16, 17

_Revue Critique_, 150

Rhine, Passage of the, 40 _n_.

Richelieu, 10-12, 14

Roe, Art, _see_ Mahon

Rousseau, J.J., 38

Ruffec, 19

Sable, Mme de, 4, 5, 21, 23, 29, 31, 32. 36, 41 _n_.

Saint-Antoine, Faubourg, 18

Saint-Cyr, 137

Saint-Simon, quoted, 79, 91

Schomberg, Duchesse de, 7

Scudery, Mlle de, 39, 45

Sedan, 153

Segrais, 35, 50 _n_

Seguier (Chancellor), 30

Seneca, 43

Seven Years War, 106

Sevigne, 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

Societe 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 Reaux, 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 "Clazomene," 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 "Eloge" on De
Seyres, 109, his "Discours sur la Gloire," 109, his "Introduction a
la Connaissance de l'Esprit humain," 124, his "Reflexions 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, Andree de, 10

Voiture, 8

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

Vouziers, 155

Young's "Night-Thoughts," 110

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