Prospero, Philip, 95, 198
Puyguilhem, marquis de, 223
Q
Quesnel, Pasquier, 390
Quietism, 334–336
Quinault, Philippe, 308–309
R
Racine, Jean, 93, 100, 179, 197
Rebenac, Monsieur de, 327–328
Recherche de la noblesse, 213
Réflexions Morales sur le Nouveau Testament, 390
Regiminus Apostolici, 211
Religion prétendue réformée, 314
Retz, Cardinal de, 42, 46, 57, 126
Réunions, chambres de, 303–306
Rheinberg, siege of, 234
Richelieu, Cardinal, 4–16, 20, 23, 32, 111
Rigaud, Hyacinthe, 318–319
Roberval, Gilles, 272
Roche-Aymon, prince de, 243
Rochechoart de Mortemart, Françoise de, 201–202
Rochefort, maréchal de, 250
Rocroi, battle of, 20, 41
Rohan, Cardinal de, 395, 398–399
Rohan, Marie de, 4, 5, 8
Rohan-Chabot, Anne de, 250
Roullé, Pierre, 170–171
S
Saint-Aignan, comte de, 44, 109, 120, 163, 167, 169, 187
Sainte-Hélène, Jacques Le Cormier de, 184–185, 188
Saint-Ghislain, siege of, 79
Saint-Maurice, 233, 250
Saint-Simon, 160, 346, 351, 376–378, 387–391
Saint Teresa of Avila, 334
Savoy, duc de, 88, 304, 340, 346
Savoy, duchesse de, 88–92, 165, 255, 375
Savoy, Eugène of, 80, 361–362, 382
Savoy, Marie-Louise de, 358
Savoy, Victor Amadeus II de, 340, 346
Scandals, 94, 137, 207–212, 239, 243, 282, 311
Scarron, Mme, 202, 280
Scarron, Paul, 202, 277–278
Scorailles, Marie-Angélique de, 257–261
Séguier, Chancellor, 11, 18–19, 43–44, 52, 63, 71, 105, 126, 133, 182–183
Seignelay, marquis de, 291, 293
Seneçay, marquise de, 20
Séry, Mlle de, 349
Sévigné, Mme de, 111, 186–191, 213, 231, 237, 248–252, 260, 280, 283, 307, 314
Sobieski, John, 305–306
Soissons, comtesse de, 82–90, 146, 152–153, 174–175, 258, 264, 327
Soubise, prince de, 250
Soubise, princesse de, 250–251, 364, 395
Sourches, marquis de, 320
Spanheim, Ezéchiel, 250
Spanish succession, 353–367
Stenay, siege of, 69
Summons to Sign the Formulary, 122–123
Sun King, 139–150, 158, 199, 272, 287, 300, 306–307, 314, 331. See also Louis XIV
T
Taking of Maastricht, The, 307
Talon, Denis, 183
Talon, Omer, 19
Tartuffe, 169–173, 239
Te Deum, 11, 34, 39, 65, 200, 206, 321, 370
Thionville, siege of, 22
Thirty Years’ War, 32, 36, 161
Thomas, prince of Carignan-Savoy, 57, 80
Titles of nobility, 213–214
Torcy, marquis de, 355, 358, 365, 367, 389–391
Toulouse, comte de, 253, 330, 384
Tournai, siege of, 200
Treatise upon the Right of the Most Christian Queen to Various States in the Spanish Monarchy, 199
Treaty of Dover, 217
Treaty of Montmartre, 163
Treaty of Münster, 214
Treaty of Nijmegen, 246, 306
Treaty of Pisa, 172
Treaty of Pyrenees, 141, 329
Treaty of Rastadt, 383
Treaty of Rueil, 39
Treaty of Utrecht, 383
Treaty of Westphalia, 36, 84, 303, 366
Tréville, Monsieur de, 16
Triple Alliance, 205–219
Triumph of Bacchus, 208
Truce of Ratisbon, 306, 322–325
Turenne, vicomte de, 39, 42, 54–56, 69, 75–82, 98–107, 126, 200, 206, 214, 232–235, 244, 248, 300
U
Unigenitus, 390
Urban VIII, Pope, 10
V
Vallot, Monsieur, 59–60, 156, 161, 218
Vardes, marquis de, 146, 147
Vatel, 131, 231
Vauban, marquis de, 206, 230, 233, 240, 244, 271, 301, 304, 331, 382
Vaudémont, Commander, 344–345
Vaux, vicomte de, 336
Vaux-le-Vicomte, 100, 129–138, 160, 169, 184
Vendôme, César de, 16, 241, 366
Vendôme, duc de, 361, 366–367
Ventadour, Mme de, 379–380, 384, 396
Viantais, Mlle de, 348
Villars, maréchal de, 360, 366–367, 382
Villars-Brancas, duc de, 281
Villequier, Captain, 37, 44, 57
Villeroy, maréchal de, 24, 37, 43, 57, 90, 186, 343–345, 362, 384–385, 392–397
Villiers, George, 5–6
Vineam Domini, 390
Visconti, Primi, 247–248, 259, 263, 283
Vivonne, comte de, 71
W
War of the League of Augsburg, 329, 340, 346
War of the Spanish Succession, 336, 360
Wesel, siege of, 234
William III, King of England, 329, 343, 346, 354–355
William of Orange, 236, 240–241, 245–246, 312, 324, 328–329
Witt, Jan de, 206, 236
Wittelsbach, Joseph Ferdinand of, 354
Wittelsbach, Joseph-Clemens von, 324
Wittelsbach, Marie-Anne Christine Victoire of, 255
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