Add MS 15904

COPIES OF LETTERS to and from Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (with a few addressed to other persons), between 1690 and 1715. The names of the writers are ;-

Pope Alexander VIII.; Louis XIV.; the Dauphin [Louis]; the Duchess of Burgundy [Marie Adelaide, of Savoy]; Philip V. of Spain, and his Queen [Marie Louise Gabrielle, of Savoy] ; the Queen of England [Mary d' Este, widow of James II], and the Kin" of England her son [James III] ; the Dowager Duchess of Orleans [Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Louis, Elector Palatine]; Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and [Eleonora Maria] his mother, the Queen Duchess [widow of Michael, King of Poland]; [Louis de Bourbon], Duke, and [Louise Benedicte] Duchess of Maine; Joseph Clement, Elector of Cologne; the Duchess of Baden; the Cardinal [Louis Antoine] de Noailles; the Abbé La Motte Fénélon; the Cardinals [Toussain de] Janson, [César] d'Estrées [Joseph] de la Tremouille, [Francisco Maria] de Medicis, and [Fabrizio] Spada; Paul Godet Desmarais, Bishop of Chartres; Père [Louis] Bourdaloue, Jesuit; Madame de Miranion; Madame Scarron; and the Marquis de L . . . . The following note occurs on the fly-leaf, " Ces lettres éstoient dans le recueil (le La Beaumel, mais n'ont pas été imprimés dans l'édition qu'il a donné des Mémoires et Lettres de Mad. de Maintenon." At the end

of the letters are added:-" Badinage qui fut fait par M. de Maintenon sur les moeurs du tems, en 1714 ou 1715," f. 148;-" Visite du Czar Pierre," an account of the visit of the Czar Peter to St. Cyr [1717], f. 149; -The Character of the Abbé Gobelin, " extrait des lettres de Made. de Maintenon à l'Abbé Gobelin," f. 151 ;-Letter of Louis XIV. to the Ladies of St. Cyr, 5 Sept. 1698, with a notice of a visit by the King to St. Cyr, f. 154;-

"Quietisme, et comment il fut introduit à Saint Cyr," f. 156;-Answer to the Question, " Ce qu'on appelle communement politesse, de quoi tient elle plus, du vice ou de la vertu?" f. 164;-" Mémoire de Made. de Maintenon sur le rappel des Huguenots fugitifs," f. 167 ;-" Relation de la maladie et de la mort de Théodore Agripa d'Aubigné, par Mad.. Renée Bourlamache, sa seconde femme," f. 172 ;- "Ce qui s'est passé dans les representations de la tragédie d'Esther [à St. Cyr] " f. 175;-" Mémoire de ce qui me manque," a series of queries relative to the life of Madame de Maintenon, addressed to an inmate of St. Cyr [by Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle?], with the replies, ff. 182, 188;-" Extrait du Journal de Trévoux, 1753," relating to the first edition of the Letters of Mad". de Maintenon, f. 196;-Answers [by La Beaumelle?] to objections made to passages in his Memoirs of Madame de Maintenon, f. 197;-Portion of an original letter from M. Gourlin (?), relating to the right of a pensionnaire [in St. Cyr ?] to dispose of certain books, Fr., f. 202. This volume was formerly in the Lamoignon Library ; an engraved portrait of Madame de Maintenon is prefixed. Small Quarto. [15,904.]