Versailles Edition
Limited to Eight Hundred Numbered Sets, of which
this is
List of Photogravure Illustrations
| Madame, Élisabeth-Charlotte, Princess Palatine, Duchesse | ||
| d’Orléans | Frontispiece | |
| By Rigaud (Hyacinthe); in the Brunswick gallery. This is the | ||
| picture Madame mentions in her letters; this reproduction is from | ||
| the copy which she promised to send to her sister Louise, Countess | ||
| Palatine; the original portrait is at Versailles. | ||
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | Saint-Cloud, Château and Park of | 42 |
| From a photograph by Neurdin, Paris. | ||
| II. | Fontainebleau. Louis XIV. and Escort, hunting | 64 |
| By Van der Meulen (Adam Franz); painted by order of the king; | ||
| in the Louvre. | ||
| III. | Marie-Anne-Victoire de Bavière, Dauphine, Wife of | |
| Monseigneur, with her Sons | 96 | |
| The Duc de Bourgogne carries a lance; the Duc d’Anjou (Philippe | ||
| V.) holds a dog; the Duc de Berry is on his mother’s lap; by Mignard | ||
| (Pierre); in the Louvre. | ||
| IV. | Louise de Bourbon, “Mme. la Duchesse” | 124 |
| By Largillière (Nicolas de); Versailles. | ||
| V. | Marie-Thérèse, Infanta of Spain, Wife of Louis XIV. | 154 |
| By Velasquez (Diego Rodriguez da Silva y); in the Prado gallery, | ||
| Madrid. | ||
| V. | René Descartes | 168 |
| By Franz Halz; in the Louvre. | ||
| VI. | Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne | 182 |
| Painter’s name not obtained; probably Santerre; in the Royal | ||
| palace at Turin; photographed by permission from the original for | ||
| this edition. | ||
| VII. | Madame de Maintenon | 216 |
| Head of the portrait painted for Saint-Cyr by Mignard; now in | ||
| the Louvre. | ||
| X. | Louis XIV. at Marly | 300 |
| By Geuslain (Charles); Versailles. |