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TABLE.

ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,

TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF

LIVES OF

EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MENOF FRANCE .

VOLTAIRE.

1694—1778.

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Infidelity of Voltaire - - - 2

1694. Birth of Fran<?ois-Marie Arouet at Chatenay - - 4

His Father, M. Arouet, a Notary - - -4

1704. iEtat. 10. Is taught by the Jesuits in the College of Louis-le-

Grand - - - . - 5

His Prejudice against the Jansenists - - - - 5

The Abbe de Chateauneuf - - - - 5

Precocious Genius of Arouet - - - 5

His introduction to Parisian Society - - - 6

Court of Louis XIV. - - - - 6

The King ruled by Molinist Confessors - - - 6

Influence of Madame de Maintenon in religious Matters - 6

1714. iEtat. 20. Young Arouet sent to Holland with the Marquis de

Chateauneuf - - - - 7

His Affection for Mademoiselle du Noyer - - - 8

He is placed as pupil with M. Alain, Attorney in Paris - 9

M. de Caumartininvites him to his Chateau of St. Ange - 10

1715. State of public Affairs on the Demise of Louis XIV. - 10

The Regent d’ Orleans, and Cardinal Dubois - - 10

1716. Altat. 22. Arouet imprisoned in the Bastille for a Satire of which

he was not the Author - - - 11

On Epic Poetry - - - - - 32

Criticism on the Henriade of Voltaire - - -13

Duke of Orleans liberates and compensates him - - 14

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