Chapter I: Introduction: By C.-A. Sainte-Beuve 1

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 35

CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME:
I. LETTERS OF 1695-1714 39
II. LETTERS OF 1714-1716 64
III. LETTERS OF 1717-1718 94
IV. LETTERS OF 1718-1719 124
V. LETTERS OF 1720-1722 153

CORRESPONDENCE OF MARIE-ADÉLAÏDE DE SAVOIE:
VI. LETTERS OF THE DUCHESSE DE BOURGOGNE 182

CORRESPONDENCE OF MADAME DE MAINTENON:
VII. MME. DE MAINTENON AND SAINT-CYR 216
VIII. LETTERS TO THE DAMES DE SAINT-CYR AND
OTHERS 236
IX. CONVERSATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS OF MME. DE
MAINTENON AT SAINT-CYR 268
X. MME. DE MAINTENON'S DESCRIPTION OF HER LIFE
AT COURT; WITH A FEW MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS 300

INDEX 323

LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS.

MADAME, ÉLISABETH-CHARLOTTE, PRINCESS PALATINE, DUCHESSE
D'ORLÉANS _Frontispiece_

By Rigaud (Hyacinthe); in the Brunswick gallery. This is the
picture Madame mentions in her letters; this reproduction is from
the copy which she promised to send to her sister Louise, Countess
Palatine; the original portrait is at Versailles.

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