Chapter LX: Louis Xvi., Convocation of the States-General. 1787-1789

List of Illustrations

The Grand Monarch in his State Robes9

Madame de La Valliere10

Madame de Montespan 12

The Iron Mask14

Bed-chamber Etiquette15

Madame de Maintenon and the Duchess of Burgundy.27

Death of Madame de Maintenon.34

The King Leaving the Death-bed of Monseigneur36

Louis XIV. In Old Age47

The Death-bed of Louis XIV.50

Versailles at Night52

The Regent Orleans54

The Bed of Justice57

John Law62

La Rue Quincampoix-68

The Duke and Duchess of Maine71

Cardinal Dubois78

Peter the Great and Little Louis XV.82

Belzunce Amid the Plague-Stricken96

The Boy King and his People104

Death of the Regent-107

Louis XV.110

Cardinal Fleury110

Mary Leczinska121

Death of Plelo130

"Moriamur Pro Rege Nostro."142

Louis XV. and his Councillors148

Louis XV. and the Ambassador of Holland151

Marshal Saxe 154

Battle of Fontenoy157

Brussels159

The Citadel of Namur161

Arrest of Charles Edward166

Dupleix168

La Bourdonnais170

Dupleix Meeting the Soudhabar of The Deccan174

Death of the Nabob Of The Carnatic174

Lally at Pondicherry184

Champlain190

Death of General Braddock203

Death of Wolfe209

Madame de Pompadour215

Attack on Fort St. Philip218

Assassination of Louis XV. by Damiens221

Death of Chevalier D'Assas233

Antwerp234

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

Defeat of the Corsicans at Golo256

Montesquieu269

Fontenelle274

Voltaire277

The Rescue of "La Henriade."283

Arrest of Voltaire298

Diderot314

Alembert317

Diderot and Catherine II.321

Buffon 323

Rousseau and Madame D'Epinay338

Louis XVI.347

Turgot's Dismissal367

Destruction of the Tea378

Suffren413

The Reading of "Paul and Virginia."427

Necker Hospital432

Marie Antoinette 456

"There Are My Sledges, Sirs."458

Lavoisier465

Cardinal Rohan's Discomfiture470

Arrest of the Members502

Genealogical Tables545