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Regency Council.--Speech of
the Duc d'Orleans.-- Resolutions Come To.--Arrests.--Relations with
Spain.--Alberoni and Saint-Aignan.--Their Quarrel.--Escape of
Saint-Aignan.
CHAPTER XCVI
The Regent Sends for Me.--Guilt of the Duc de Maine.--Proposed
Arrest.-- Discussion on the Prison to Be Chosen.--The Arrest.--His
Dejection.-- Arrest of the Duchess.--Her Rage.--Taken to Dijon.--Other
Arrests.-- Conduct of the Comte de Toulouse.--The Faux
Sauniers.--Imprisonment of the Duc and Duchesse du Maine.--Their
Sham Disagreement.--Their Liberation.--Their Reconciliation.

VOLUME 13.
CHAPTER XCVII
Anecdote of Madame de Charlus.--The 'Phillippaques'.--La Grange.--
Pere Tellier.--The Jesuits.--Anecdote----Tellier's Banishment.--Death
of Madame de Maintenon.--Her Life at Saint-Cyr.
CHAPTER XCVIII
Mode of Life of the Duchesse de Berry.--Her Illness.--Her Degrading

Amours.--Her Danger Increases.--The Sacraments Refused.--The Cure
Is Supported by the Cardinal de Noailles.--Curious Scene.--The
Duchess Refuses to Give Way.--She Recovers, and Is
Delivered.--Ambition of Rion. --He Marries the Duchess.--She
Determines to Go to Meudon.--Rion Sent to the Army.--Quarrels of
Father and Daughter.--Supper on the Terrace of Meudon.--The Duchess
Again Ill.--Moves to La Muette.--Great Danger.-- Receives the
Sacrament.--Garus and Chirac.--Rival Doctors.--Increased
Illness.--Death of the Duchess.--Sentiments on the Occasion.--Funeral
Ceremonies.--Madame de Saint-Simon Fails Ill.--Her Recovery.--We
Move to Meudon.--Character of the Duchesse de Berry.
CHAPTER XCIX
The Mississippi Scheme.--Law Offers Me Shares.--Compensation for
Blaye.-- The Rue Quincampoix.--Excitement of the Public.--Increased
Popularity of the Scheme.--Conniving of Law.--Plot against His
Life--Disagreement with Argenson.--Their Quarrel.--Avarice of the
Prince de Conti.--His Audacity.--Anger of the Regent.--Comparison
with the Period of Louis XIV.--A Ballet Proposed.--The Marechal de
Villeroy.--The Young King Is to Dance.--Young Law
Proposed.--Excitement.--The Young King's Disgust.-- Extravagant
Presents of the Duc d'Orleans.
CHAPTER C
System of Law in Danger.--Prodigality of the Duc
d'Orleans.--Admissions of Law.--Fall of His Notes.--Violent Measures
Taken to Support Them.-- Their Failure.--Increased Extravagance of
the Regent.--Reduction of the Fervour.--Proposed Colonies.--Forced
Emigration.--Decree on the Indian Company.--Scheming of Argenson.
Attitude of the Parliament.--Their Remonstrance.--Dismissal of
Law.--His Coolness--Extraordinary Decree of Council of
State.--Prohibition of jewellery.--New Schemes.
CHAPTER CI

The New Edict.--The Commercial Company.--New Edict.--Rush on the
Bank.-- People Stifled in the Crowd.--Excitement against Law.--Money
of the Bank.--Exile of the Parliament to Pontoise.--New
Operation.--The Place Vendome.--The Marechal de
Villeroy.--Marseilles.--Flight of Law.-- Character of Him and His
Wife.--Observations on His Schemes.--Decrees of the Finance.
CHAPTER CII
Council on the Finances.--Departure of Law--A Strange Dialogue.--M.
le Duc and the Regent.--Crimes Imputed to Law during His
Absence.--Schemes Proposed.--End, of the Council.
CHAPTER CIII
Character of Alberoni.--His Grand Projects.--Plots against Him.--The
Queen's Nurse.--The Scheme against the Cardinal.--His Fall.--Theft of
a Will.--Reception in Italy.--His Adventures There.
CHAPTER CIV
Meetings of the Council.--A Kitten.--The Archbishopric of Cambrai.--
Scandalous Conduct of Dubois.--The Consecration.--I Persuade the
Regent Not to Go.--He Promises Not.--Breaks His Word.--Madame de
Parabere.--The Ceremony.--Story of the Comte de Horn.

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CHAPTER CV
Quarrel of the King of England with His Son.--Schemes of Dubois.--
Marriage of Brissac.--His Death.--Birth of the Young Pretender.--
Cardinalate of Dubois.--Illness of the King.--His Convalescence.-- A
Wonderful Lesson.--Prudence of the Regent.--Insinuations against
Him.

CHAPTER CVI
Projected Marriages of the King and of the Daughter of the Duc
d'Orleans_ --How It Was Communicated to Me.--I Ask for the
Embassy to Spain.--It Is Granted to Me.--Jealousy of Dubois.--His
Petty Interference.-- Announcement of the Marriages.
CHAPTER CVII
Interview with Dubois.--His Singular Instructions to Ale.--His
Insidious Object.--Various Tricks and Manoeuvres.--My Departure for
Spain.--Journey by Way of Bordeaux and Bayonne.--Reception in
Spain.--Arrival at Madrid.
CHAPTER CVIII
Interview in the Hall of Mirrors.--Preliminaries of the Marriages.--
Grimaldo.--How the Question of Precedence Was Settled.--I Ask for an
Audience.--Splendid Illuminations.--A Ball.--I Am Forced to Dance.
CHAPTER CIX
Mademoiselle de Montpensier Sets out for Spain.--I Carry the News to
the King.--Set out for Lerma.--Stay at the Escurial.--Take the
Small--pox.-- Convalescence.
CHAPTER CX
Mode of Life of Their Catholic Majesties.--Their Night.--Morning.--
Toilette.--Character of Philippe V.--And of His Queen.--How She
Governed Him.
CHAPTER CXI
The King's Taste for Hunting.--Preparations for a Battue.--Dull Work.--
My Plans to Obtain the Grandesse.--Treachery of Dubois.--Friendship
of Grimaldo.--My Success.

CHAPTER CXII
Marriage of the Prince of the Asturias.--An Ignorant Cardinal.--I Am
Made Grandee of Spain.--The Vidame de Chartres Named Chevalier of
the Golden Fleece.--His Reception--My Adieux.--A Belching
Princess.-- Return to France.

VOLUME 15.
CHAPTER CXIII
Attempted Reconciliation between Dubois and Villeroy.--Violent
Scene.-- Trap Laid for the Marechal.--Its Success.--His Arrest.
CHAPTER CXIV
I Am Sent for by Cardinal Dubois.--Flight of Frejus.--He Is Sought and
Found.--Behaviour of Villeroy in His Exile at Lyons.--His Rage and
Reproaches against Frejus.--Rise of the Latter in the King's
Confidence.
CHAPTER CXV
I Retire from Public Life.--Illness and Death of Dubois. --Account of
His Riches.--His Wife.--His Character.--Anecdotes.--Madame de
Conflans.-- Relief of the Regent and the King.
CHAPTER CXVI
Death of Lauzun.--His Extraordinary Adventures.--His Success at
Court.-- Appointment to the Artillery.--Counter--worked by
Louvois.--Lauzun and Madame de Montespan.--Scene with the
King.--Mademoiselle and Madame de Monaco.
CHAPTER CXVII

Lauzun's Magnificence.--Louvois Conspires against Him.--He Is
Imprisoned.--His Adventures at Pignerol.--On What Terms He Is
Released.-- His Life Afterwards.--Return to Court.
CHAPTER CXVIII
Lauzun Regrets His Former Favour.--Means Taken to Recover
It.--Failure.-- Anecdotes.--Biting Sayings.--My Intimacy with
Lauzun.--His Illness, Death, and Character.