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Louis XIV. Makers of History Series By: John S. C. Abbott (1805-1877) |
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Louis XIV. BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1904
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington Copyright, 1898, by LAURA A. BUCK.
[Illustration: LOUIS XIV.]
PREFACE
We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and
the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and
sins, which the world sees not, and of which it knows but little. None
lead this double life more emphatically than those who are seated upon
thrones. Though this historic sketch contains allusions to all the most
important events in the reign of Louis XIV., it has been the main
object of the writer to develop the inner life of the palace; to lead
the reader into the interior of the Louvre, the Tuileries, Versailles,
and Marly, and to exhibit the monarch as a man, in the details of
domestic privacy. This can more easily be done in reference to Louis XIV. than any other
king. Very many of the prominent members of his household left their
autobiographies, filled with the minutest incidents of every day life. It is impossible to give any correct idea of the life of this proud
monarch without allusion to the corruption in the midst of which he
spent his days. Still, the writer, while faithful to fact, has
endeavored so to describe these scenes that any father can safely read
the narrative aloud to his family. There are few chapters in history more replete with horrors than that
which records the "Revocation of the Edict of Nantes." The facts given
are beyond all possibility of contradiction. In the contemplation of
these scenes the mind pauses, bewildered by the reflection forced upon
it, that many of the actors in these fiend like outrages were inspired
by motives akin to sincerity and conscientiousness. The thoughtful reader will perceive that in this long and wicked reign
Louis XIV. was sowing the wind from which his descendants reaped the
whirlwind. It was the despotism of Louis XIV. and of Louis XV. which
ushered in that most sublime of all earthly dramas, the French
Revolution. JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. New Haven, Conn., 1870.
CONTENTS.
Chapter Page I. BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD 13 II. THE BOY KING 49 III. MATRIMONIAL PROJECTS 86 IV. THE MARRIAGE OF THE KING 121 V. FESTIVITIES OF THE COURT 159 VI. DEATH IN THE PALACE 194 VII. THE WAR IN HOLLAND 234 VIII. MADAME DE MAINTENON 268 IX. THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES 302 X. THE SECRET MARRIAGE 330 XI. INTRIGUES AND WARS 359 XII. LAST DAYS OF LOUIS XIV. 384
ENGRAVINGS.
Page LOUIS XIV. Frontispiece. THE CASTLE OF BLOIS 18 PALACE OF ST. GERMAIN EN LAYE 23 THE PALAIS ROYAL 31 PALACE OF THE LUXEMBOURG 52 THE TUILERIES 74 THE CASTLE OF VINCENNES 79 PALACE OF CHANTILLY 98 VIEW OF FONTAINEBLEAU 103 ISLE OF PHEASANTS 129 THE LOUVRE AND THE TUILERIES 139 PALACE OF FONTAINEBLEAU 145 CHATEAU MAZARIN 157 CHATEAU DE VAUX 176 CONVENT OF VAL DE GRACE 198 THE PALACE OF ST... Continue reading book >>
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