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Court Ladies.--The
Duchesse de Bourgogne.--Scene at the Carp Basin.--King's
Selfishness.-- The King Cuts Samuel Bernard's Purse.--A Vain
Capitalist.--Story of Leon and Florence the Actress.--His Loves with
Mademoiselle de Roquelaure.-- Run--away Marriage.--Anger of
Madame de Roquelaure.--A Furious Mother.-- Opinions of the
Court.--A Mistake.--Interference of the King.-- Fate of the Couple .
CHAPTER XLI

The Duc d'Orleans in Spain.--Offends Madame des Ursins and
Madame de Maintenon.--Laziness of M. de Vendome in
Flanders.--Battle of Oudenarde. --Defeat and Disasters.--Difference of
M. de Vendome and the Duc de Bourgogne.
CHAPTER XLII
Conflicting Reports.--Attacks on the Duc de Bourgogne.--The
Duchesse de Bourgogne Acts against Vendome.--Weakness of the
Duke.--Cunning of Vendome.--The Siege of Lille.--Anxiety for a
Battle.--Its Delay.--Conduct of the King and Monseigneur.--A Picture
of Royal Family Feeling.--Conduct of the Marechal de Boufflers.
CHAPTER XLIII
Equivocal Position of the Duc de Bourgogne.--His Weak Conduct.--
Concealment of a Battle from the King.--Return of the Duc de
Bourgogne to Court.--Incidents of His
Reception.--Monseigneur.--Reception of the Duc de Berry.--Behaviour
of the Duc de Bourgogne.--Anecdotes of Gamaches.-- Return of
Vendome to Court.--His Star Begins to Wane.--Contrast of Boufflers
and Vendome.--Chamillart's Project for Retaking Lille.--How It Was
Defeated by Madame de Maintenon.
CHAPTER XLIV
Tremendous Cold in France.--Winters of 1708-1709--Financiers and
the Famine.--Interference of the Parliaments of Paris and
Dijon.--Dreadful Oppression.--Misery of the People.--New
Taxes.--Forced Labour.--General Ruin.--Increased
Misfortunes.--Threatened Regicide.--Procession of Saint
Genevieve.--Offerings of Plate to the King.--Discontent of the People.--
A Bread Riot, How Appeased.
CHAPTER XLV
M. de Vendome out of Favour.--Death and Character of the Prince de

Conti.--Fall of Vendome.--Pursegur's Interview with the
King.--Madame de Bourgogne against Vendome.--Her Decided
Conduct.--Vendome Excluded from Marly.--He Clings to
Meudon.--From Which He is also Expelled.--His Final Disgrace and
Abandonment.--Triumph of Madame de Maintenon.
CHAPTER XLVI
Death of Pere La Chaise.--His Infirmities in Old Age.--Partiality of the
King.--Character of Pere La Chaise.--The Jesuits.--Choice of a New
Confessor.--Fagon's Opinion.--Destruction of Port Royal.--Jansenists
and Molinists.--Pascal.--Violent Oppression of the Inhabitants of Port
Royal.

VOLUME 7.
CHAPTER XLVII
Death of D'Avaux.--A Quarrel about a Window.--Louvois and the
King.-- Anecdote of Boisseuil.--Madame de Maintenon and M. de
Beauvilliers.-- Harcourt Proposed for the Council.--His
Disappointment.--Death of M. le Prince.--His Character.--Treatment of
His Wife.--His Love Adventures.-- His Madness.--A Confessor
Brought.--Nobody Regrets Him.
CHAPTER XLVIII
Progress of the War.--Simplicity of Chamillart.--The Imperialists and
the Pope.--Spanish Affairs.--Duc d'Orleans and Madame des
Ursins.--Arrest of Flotte in Spain.--Discovery of the Intrigues of the
Duc d'Orleans.--Cabal against Him.--His Disgrace and Its
Consequences.
CHAPTER XLIX
Danger of Chamillart.--Witticism of D'Harcourt.--Faults of

Chamillart.-- Court Intrigues against Him.--Behaviour of the
Courtiers.--Influence of Madame de Maintenon.--Dignified Fall of
Chamillart.--He is Succeeded by Voysin.--First Experience of the New
Minister.--The Campaign in Flanders.--Battle of Malplaquet.
CHAPTER L.
Disgrace of the Duc d'Orleans.--I Endeavor to Separate Him from
Madame d'Argenton.--Extraordinary Reports.--My Various Colloquies
with Him.--The Separation.--Conduct of Madame d'Argenton.--Death
and Character of M. le Duc.--The After-suppers of the King.
CHAPTER LI
Proposed Marriage of Mademoiselle.--My Intrigues to Bring It
About.--The Duchesse de Bourgogne and Other Allies.--The Attack
Begun.--Progress of the Intrigue.--Economy at Marly.--The Marriage
Agreed Upon.--Scene at Saint-Cloud.--Horrible Reports.--The
Marriage.--Madame de Saint-Simon.-- Strange Character of the
Duchesse de Berry
CHAPTER LII
Birth of Louis XV.--The Marechale de la Meilleraye.--Saint-Ruth's
Cudgel.--The Cardinal de Bouillon's Desertion from
France.--Anecdotes of His Audacity.
CHAPTER LIII
Imprudence of Villars.--The Danger of Truthfulness.--Military
Mistakes.-- The Fortunes of Berwick.--The Son of James.--Berwick's
Report on the Army.--Imprudent Saying of Villars.--"The Good Little
Fellow" in a Scrape.--What Happens to Him.
CHAPTER LIV
Duchesse de Berry Drunk.--Operations in Spain.--Vendome Demanded

by Spain.--His Affront by the Duchesse de Bourgogne.--His Arrival.--
Staremberg and Stanhope.--The Flag of Spain Leaves Madrid.--Entry
of the Archduke.--Enthusiasm of the Spaniards--The King
Returns.--Strategy, of Staremberg.--Affair of Brighuega.--Battle of
Villavciosa.--Its Consequences to Vendome and to Spain.

VOLUME 8.
CHAPTER LV
State of the Country.--New Taxes.--The King's Conscience Troubled.--
Decision of the Sorbonne.--Debate in the Council.--Effect of the Royal
Tithe.--Tax on Agioteurs.--Merriment at Court.--Death of a Son of
Marechal Boufflers.--The Jesuits.
CHAPTER LVI
My Interview with Du Mont.--A Mysterious Communication. --Anger
of Monseigneur against Me.--Household of the Duchesse de
Berry.--Monseigneur Taken Ill of the Smallpox.--Effect of the
News.--The King Goes to Meudon.--The Danger Diminishes.--Madame
de Maintenon at Meudon.--The Court at Versailles.--Hopes and
Fears.--The Danger Returns.--Death of Monseigneur.--Conduct of the
King.
CHAPTER LVII
A Rumour Reaches Versailles.--Aspect of the Court.--Various Forms
of Grief.--The Duc d'Orleans.--The News Confirmed at
Versailles.--Behaviour of the Courtiers.--The Duc and Duchesse de
Berry.--The Duc and Duchesse de Bourgogne.--Madame.--A Swiss
Asleep.--Picture of a Court.--The Heir- Apparent's Night.--The King
Returns to Marly.--Character of Monseigneur. --Effect of His Death.
CHAPTER LVIII

State of the Court at Death of Monseigneur.--Conduct of the Dauphin
and the Dauphine.--The Duchesse de Berry.--My Interview with the
Dauphin.-- He is Reconciled with M. d'Orleans.
CHAPTER LIX
Warnings to the Dauphin and the Dauphine.--The Dauphine Sickens
and Dies.--Illness of the Dauphin.--His Death.--Character and Manners
of the Dauphine.--And of the Dauphin.
CHAPTER LX
Certainty of Poison.--The Supposed Criminal.--Excitement of the
People against M. d'Orleans.--The Cabal.--My