ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. Xiil
A. d. Pa 8 e
1676. Madame de Sevigne attacked with Rheumatism - - 244
1677. JEtat 51. Visited by her Daughter* who falls ill also *• - 245
Their Residence in Paris - 246
Account of the Chevalier de Grignan - - - 246
1680. £ltat. 54. Madame de Sevigne visits her Estate of Aux Rochers,
in Britany - - - 2^8.252
Marriage of the Marquis de Sevigne , Son of Madame de Se-vigne - - - - - 249
further Letters to Madame de Grignan - - -251
James II , established at St.Germain - * -251
Duke and Duchess de Chaulnes • - 252
1690. JEtat. 64. Marchioness of Sevigne resides with Madame de Grig-
The Family of de Grignan - • 254
1695, Pauline de Grignan married to the Marquis de Simiane - 248. 254
1696. AStat. 70. Death of Madame de Sevigne - - 248.254
Count de Bussy-Rabutin's Character of his celebrated Cou-sin - - - . 248. 254
Countess de la Fayette’s Portrait of her - - -255
Voltaire ’s opinion of her Taste - - -256
Her Character - 253
Madame de Sevigne was a Jansenist ... 257
The Dragonades against the Protestants of France - 257
No Posterity existent of the Family of de Sevigne - - 258
BOILEAU.
1636—1711.
Celebrated Era of Louis Quatorze - . -259
1636. Birth of Nicholas Boileau , known also by the Name of M. Des-
preaux ----- 259
He displays a turn for Poetry at the College of Beauvais - 260His first Ode - - 261
1556. iEtat. 20. Boileau studies the Law - . *261
He addicts himself to Letters - • -261
Rise of Literature in France - - 262
The Dramatic Poets - - 262
Jean Chapelain ’s Poem of “ La Pucelle ” - - -262
Colbert, Prime Minister • 262
French Poets - - 265
Prince de Conde ’s Society of Literary Men at Chantilly _ 266Boileau’s Learned Friends - - 237
1666. uEtat. 30. He publishes his Satires - - 269
1667. His Eighth Satire - - - - 270
11 L’Art Poetique ** - 270
“ Le Lutrin” - - - 271—278