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Title: A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times
Volume VI. of VI.

Author: Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

Release Date: April 8, 2004 [EBook #11956]
Last Updated: November 10, 2012

Language: English

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A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES

By M. Guizot

ENLARGE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XLIX.  LOUIS XIV. AND HIS COURT.

CHAPTER L.  LOUIS XIV. AND DEATH. 1711-1715.

CHAPTER LI.  LOUIS XV., THE REGENCY, AND CARDINAL DUBOIS. 1715-1723.

CHAPTER LII.  LOUIS XV., THE MINISTRY OF CARDINAL FLEURY., 1723-1748.

CHAPTER LIII.  LOUIS XV., FRANCE IN THE COLONIES. 1745-1763.

CHAPTER LIV.  LOUIS XV., THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR.

CHAPTER LV.  LOUIS XV., THE PHILOSOPHERS.

CHAPTER LVI.  LOUIS XVI., MINISTRY OF M. TURGOT. 1774-1776.

CHAPTER LVII.  LOUIS XVI., FRANCE ABROAD.—UNITED STATES' WAR

CHAPTER LVIII.  LOUIS XVI., FRANCE AT HOME.—MINISTRY OF M. NECKER.

CHAPTER LIX.  LOUIS XVI., M. DE CALONNE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF NOTABLES.

CHAPTER LX.  LOUIS XVI., CONVOCATION OF THE STATES-GENERAL. 1787-1789.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Grand Monarch in his State Robes——9

Madame de La Valliere——10

Madame de Montespan 12

The Iron Mask——14

Bed-chamber Etiquette——15

Madame de Maintenon and the Duchess of Burgundy.——27

Death of Madame de Maintenon.——34