: Ninon de l'Enclos and her century by Rowsell Mary C Mary Catherine - Lenclos Ninon de 1620-1705

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Birth--Parentage--"Arms and the Man"--A Vain Hope--Contraband Novels--A Change of Educational System--Ninon's Endowments--The Wrinkle--A Letter to M. de L'Enclos and What Came of it--A Glorious Time--"Troublesome Huguenots"--The Ch?teau at Loches, and a New Acquaintance--"When Greek meets Greek"--The Prisoners--"Liberty"--The Shades of Night--Vagabonds? or Two Young Gentlemen of Consequence?--Tired Out--A Dilemma--Ninon Herself Again--Consolation.

Troublesome Huguenots--Madame de L'Enclos--An Escapade and Nurse Madeleine--Their Majesties--The H?tel Bourgogne--The End of the Adventure--St Vincent de Paul and his Charities--Dying Paternal Counsel--Ninon's New Home--Duelling--Richelieu and the Times.

A "Delicious Person"--Voiture's Jealousy--A Tardy Recognition--Coward Conscience--A Protestant Pope--The H?tel de Rambouillet--St Evr?mond--The Duel--Nurse Madeleine--Cloistral Seclusion and Jacques Callot--"Merry Companions Every One"--and One in Particular.

M?lusine--Cinq-Mars--An Ill-advised Marriage--The Conspiracy--The Revenge--The Scaffold--A Cry from the Bastille--The Lady's Man--"The Cardinal's Hangman"--Finis--Louis's Evensong--A Little Oversight--The King's Nightcap--Mazarin--Ninon's Hero.

"Loving like a Madman"--A Great Transformation--The Unjust Tax--Parted Lovers--A Gay Court and A School for Scandal, and Mazarin's Policy--The Regent's Caprices--The King's Upholsterer's Young Son--The Th??tre Illustre--The Company of Monsieur and Moli?re.

The Rift in the Lute--In the Vexin--The Miracle of the Gardener's Cottage--Italian Opera in Paris--Parted Lovers--"Ninum"--Scarron and Fran?oise d'Aubign?--Treachery--A Journey to Naples--Masaniello--Renewing Acquaintances--Mazarin's Mandate.

Invalids in the rue des Tournelles--On the Battlements--"La Grande Mademoiselle"--Casting Lots--The Sacrifice--The Bag of Gold--"Get Thee to a Convent"--The Battle of the Sonnets--A Curl-paper--The Triumph and Defeat of Bacchus--A Secret Door--Cross Questions and Crooked Answers--The Youthful Autocrat.

The Whirligig of Time, and an Old Friend--Going to the Fair--A Terrible Experience--The Young Abb?--"The Brigands of La Trappe"--The New Ordering--An Enduring Memory--The King over the Water--Unfulfilled Aspirations--"Not Good-looking."

Christina's Modes and Robes--Encumbering Favour--A Comedy at the Petit-Bourbon--The Liberty of the Queen and the Liberty of the Subject--Tears and Absolutions--The Tragedy in the Gal?rie des Cerfs--Disillusions.

A Disastrous Wooing--F?nelon--"Mademoiselle de L'Enclos"--The Pride that had a Fall--The Death of the Duchesse d'Orl?ans--Intrigue--The Sun-King and the Shadows--The Clermont Scholar's Crime--Monsieur de Montespan--Tardy Indignation--The Encounter--The Filles R?penties--What the Cards Foretold.

A Grave Question--The Troublesome Brother-in-Law--"No Vocation"--The Duke's Choice--Peace for "La Grande Mademoiselle"--An Invitation to Versailles--Behind the Arras--Between the Alternatives--D'Aubign?'s Shadow--A Broken Friendship.

The Falling of the Leaves--Gallican Rights--"The Eagle of Meaux"--Cond?'s Funeral Oration--The Abb? Gedouin's Theory--A Bag of Bones--Marriage and Sugar-plums--The Valour of Monsieur du Maine--The King's Repentance--The next Campaign--La Fontaine and Madame de Sabli?re--MM. de Port Royal--The Fate of Madame Guyon--"Mademoiselle Balbien."

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