Crowned during
Marches to reduce
ror Otho to invade France, 59. Comes to
terms with Hugh, 60. His death, 60
Louis V., le Fainéant, i. 66.
his father's lifetime, 66.
Rheims, 67. His death, 67
Louis VI., the Fat, his early life, i. 112. Trea-
chery of his mother-in-law, Queen Bertrade,
113. Associated by his father with him in
the kingdom, 113. Opposes William Rufus
in his invasion of the Vexin, 112. His early
relations with Henry I., of England, 113.
His mode of raising the royal prerogative,
114. Defends the clergy against the barons,
114. Compels Burchard of Montmorency to
submit to the Abbey of St. Denis, 114. De-
fends the churches of Orleans and Rheims
against the noblesse, 114. Reduces the
barons and castles around Paris, 115. The
two periods into which his reign and policy
may be divided, 117. His struggle with
Henry I. of England, 117, 118. And with
Theobald, Count of Chartres, 118. Beaten
at Brenneville, and withdraws to Paris, 119.
Summons the nobles and population to assist
him, 119, 120. Municipal privileges granted
by him to towns, 120. Grants charters to
towns in order to humble the nobles, 122.
Abrogates the liberties of Laon, but subse-
quently regrants them, 123. His accusations
at the Council of Rheims against Henry I. of
England, 125. Ordered by the Pope to keep
the truce of God, 125. Collects an immense
national army at Rheims to oppose the Em-
peror and Henry I. of England, 125. En-
forces French suzerainty beyond the Loire,
126. His methods of promoting the growth
of his power, 127. His minister, Suger, 127.
Divorces his wife, 127. And marries the
daughter of Anne of Savoy, 127. Associates
with him his son Philip, who is crowned,
127. But who is killed soon after, 128. His
second son Louis crowned by Pope Innocent
II., 128. Marries his son to Eleanor, heiress
of Aquitaine, 128. His death, 128. Insti-
tutions which arose in his reign, 129
Louis VII., King of France, crowned during
his father's lifetime, i. 128. Marries Eleanor,
heiress of Aquitaine, 128. Condition of his
dominions as compared with Germany and
England, 129, 130. His treatment of the
citizens of Orleans, 132. And of Sens, 132.
Crowned at Bourges, 133. His unsuccessful
siege of Toulouse, 133. His breach with
Innocent II., 133. Excommunicated, 133.
At war with the Count of Champagne, 133.
Accident at the siege of Vitry, 133. Makes
peace with the count and beseeches pardon of
the Pope, 134. Favours the cause of King
Stephen in England, 136. Assumes the
Cross and joins the Second Crusade, 137.
Joined by his wife, 137. His ill-success, 138,
139. Returns to France, 139. Divorces his
wife Eleanor, and marries Constance of Cas-
tille, 140. Marries his sister to the Count
of Toulouse, 140. His serious rivalry with
Henry II. of England, who had married his
divorced queen, 141. Makes an attempt on
Normandy, but repelled by Henry II., 142.
Gives his daughter, Margaret, in marriage to
the son of Henry, 143. Defends Toulouse
against Henry, 143. Fortifies Chaumont,
which is taken by Henry, 143. Concludes
peace at Trencavel, 143. Loses his wife, and
marries Adele, daughter of the Count of
Blois, 143, 144. Birth of his son, Philip
Augustus, 144. Embraces the cause of
Archbishop A'Becket, 145. His daughter,
Margaret, not crowned with her husband,
146. War begun by Louis in consequence,
146. Takes Verneuil and sets fire to it, 146.
Put to the rout by Henry, 147. Lays siege
to Rouen, which is relieved, 147. Makes
peace with Henry, 147. Struck by paralysis,
147. Causes his son Philip Augustus to be
crowned, 147, 148. Makes a pilgrimage to
the shrine of A'Becket, 148. His death, 148
Louis VIII., King of France, King John of
England's possessions in Berry given up to,
i. 163. His marriage with Blanche of Cas-
tille negotiated, 163. Interferes between the
Albigenses and their persecutors, 184. Takes
La Rochelle from King John, 186. Besieges
Toulouse, but fails to take it, 186. Supports
the Emperor Frederick II. against Otho
IV., 189. Opposes King John of England at
La Rochelle, 189. Accepts the offer of the
English barons of the crown of England,
192. Lands in England, 192. Defeated
at the Fair of Lincoln, 193.
And com-
pelled to conclude a treaty with Henry
III., 193. Obtains a loan from the citizens
of London and returns to France, 193.
accession to the crown on the death of his
father, 193, 196. His descent, through his
mother, from Charlemagne, 196. Energy
and intelligence of his queen, Blanche of
Castille, 196. Accepts Amaury de Mont-
fort's offer of his claim to the county of Tou-
louse, 197. Fails to induce Pope Honorius
III. to excommunicate Raymond VII. of Tou-
louse, 197. His designs against that county
baffled in consequence, 198. Turns his arms
against Henry III. of England, 198. Takes
La Rochelle and drives the English entirely
out of France, 198. Honorius' policy of re-
conciliation with Louis, 199. Receives from
the Pope the mission to lead a
against the Albigenses, 199.
his army at Bourges, 199. Besieges and
takes Avignon, but does not attempt Tou
louse, 199, 200. His death at Montpellier,
200. His provision for his sons, 200
Louis IX., the Saint, his accession to the throne,
i. 200. His character, 204. His age at the
death of his father, 205. Regency of his
mother, Blanche of Castille, 205. His coro-
nation, 206. The League of the Barons
against his mother, 206. Feebleness of the
court during his minority, 210. Brittany
invaded by Henry III. of England, 214. Louis
marches into Brittany, 215. And concludes
the truce of St. Aubin, 215. The possessions
of the Count of Champagne made over to
the crown of France, 216. Louis's marriage
with Margaret of Provence, 216. Extent of
his dominions and power at this period, 217.
His ambition, 217. Suppresses the hostility
of Raymond of Toulouse, 220. Invests his
brother Alphonso with knighthood and the
county of Poitou, 220. Rebellion of the
Count de la Marche, 221-224. Louis sum-
mons a parliament to defend Poitou, and
crush De la Marche, 222. Defeats his ene-
mies at Taillebourg, 224. Reduces Poitou
and takes the castle of Mirabeau, 224.
view of his acts as a legislator, 225.
line drawn between the French and English
noblesse, 225. His ordinance against the
right of private war, 225, 249. Receives
news of the success of the Infidel at Jerusa-
lem, 226. Flight of the Pope, Innocent IV.,
to Lyons, 227. Louis refuses to follow the
Pope's advice, 228. Louis's illness, 228. He
assumes the Cross, 228. And induces his
brothers and courtiers to join him, 228, 229.
His interview with the Pope at Cluny, 229.
His proposals to Henry III. to convert the
truce into a lasting peace, 229. His acquisi-
tion of Provence, 230, 231. His decision on
the disputed succession to Flanders and
Hainhault, 231, 246. Founds the town of
Aigues Mortes, 232. His preparations for
the Crusades, 232. Joined by several Eng-
lish, 232. His embarkation on the Fifth
Crusade, 233. Winters in Cyprus, 233.
Lands in Egypt and takes Damietta, 233.
Debauchery and licence of his chiefs, 233.
Marches to Cairo, 234. His valour at the
battle of Mansourah, 236. Fights a defen-
sive battle and retreats, 236, 237. His ill-
ness, 237. Taken prisoner and ransomed,
237, 238. Sets sail for Acre, and effects the
liberation of the imprisoned crusaders, 238.
State of his dominions during his absence,
238-241. Death of his mother, 240.
turns home, 241. His edict repressing ma-
gisterial abuses, 242. His desire for the
salvation of his own soul and the sanctifica-
tion of his country, 245. His settlement of
the boundary between France and Spain, 247.
His treaty with Henry III. of England, i.
His restitution of lands to that King,
248. Abolishes trial by single combat, 249.
His établissements, 250. His judgment in
the case of De Coucy, 250, 251. His arti
tration between Henry III. and his barons
252. His decision set aside, 252. Offered
by the Pope the kingdom of Sicily and
Naples, but refuses, 255. Determines to uD-
dertake another crusade, 257. His judicia
and administrative reforms, 258. Severity
of his penal code, 263. His military regula
tions, 263. His publication of the Pragmatic
Sanction, 266. His negotiations with the
Pope respecting judicial privileges, 267. His
arrangements for the magistracy and police
of Paris, 268. And for the coinage, 269.
Review of his aims as a monarch, 269, 270.
Sets out on a crusade, 271. Lands at Tunis,
272. There he loses his son John Tristam
272. Louis's death at Tunis, 272. Canonised
by Boniface VIII., 317. His character con-
trasted with that of Philip the Fair, 354.
Louis X., Hutin, King of France, when King
of Navarre sent to crush the Lyonnese, i.
350. Dissolute life of his wife, Margaret
of Burgundy, 353. Who was strangled in
the castle of Andelys, 353, 364. His a
cession to the crown of France, 362. His
fondness for rude pastimes, 362. Influence
of his uncle, Charles of Valois, over him, 362
Louis's marriage with Clemence, daughter of
Charles Martel, of Naples, 364. A war with
Flanders threatened, 364. Louis's conces
sions of power and rights to the noblesse,
365. For the first time in the history of
France money is borrowed on the credit of
the state, 367. Raises and marches an army
into Flanders, 367. But compelled by rain
to retreat, 367. Anarchy in the kingdom in
consequence, 367. Louis's death at Vir
cennes, 368. His daughter Jeanne, 368
His posthumous son, John, 369
Louis XI., King of France, examples of his cour
age and capacity when Dauphin, ii. 205, 26.
Raises the standard of revolt against his
father, Charles VII., 206. Submits and is
pardoned, 207. Dauphiné restored to him,
207. Taken with the King on his war
against the nobles, 211. Defeats the Eng
lish at Dieppe, 214, 219. Appointed by las
father commander between the Seine and is
Somme, 214. Overcomes Armagnac's re-
bellion in the south, 219. Leads the military
mercenaries to aid Austria against Switzer
land, 219. Defeats the Swiss at the battle
of St. Jacques, 220. Concludes peace with
them at Ensisheim, 220. Hated and feared
by the King's court, 233. Fate of his wife.
Margaret of Scotland, 234. Calumnies in-
vented against him, 234. Withdraws t
Dauphiné in disgrace, 235.
daughter of the Duke of Savoy, 235. Jes!
lousy and anger with which he looked upc
the upstarts of the court, 241. His life in
Dauphiné, 242. His quarrel with his father,
242, 243. His flight to the court of Bur-
gundy, 243, 244. Death of his father, 245.
Character of Louis, 250. His coronation,
252. His reception in Paris, 253. His
persecution of his father's ministers, 253.
And reward of his friends, 253, 254. His
fondness for the chase, 254. His dislike of
finery and airs, 254. His friendship with
the Count of Charolais, the future Charles
the Rash, 254. Grants to towns and nobles
all their requests, 255. His first fiscal
measure, 256. Abrogates the Pragmatic
Sanction, 257. His habits and predilections,
258. Marries his sister Margaret to the
son of the Count of Foix, 259. His acqui-
sition of the Roussillon, 259. His English
policy, 259. Regains the towns lost by the
treaty of Arras, 262-264. Seizes and im-
prisons Philip de la Bresse, 265. Charged
with having suborned Rubempré to kill the
Count of Charolais, 265. His rupture with
Burgundy, 266. Formation of a league of
princes and high noblesse against him, 266.
Reasons why he was deserted by his friends,
267. Mode of proceeding of the malcontents,
268. Louis's preparations for war, 268, 269.
Receives assistance from the Duke of Milan
and Lorenzo di Medici, 269. Marches
against the rebels, 269. Offers them battle
at Riom, which they decline, 269. Occupies
Montlhery, 270. Gives the enemy battle,
270. Retires to Corbeil, 271. Enters Paris,
to which he makes concessions, 272.
the Count of Charolais, and negotiates the
treaty of Conflans, 274. By which he is
forced to give up Normandy to the Duke of
Berry, 274. And makes other concessions
to the rebel princes, 275. His position after
all the arrangements were completed, 276.
Replaces his councillors, 277. And recovers
Normandy, 277. Incites the Flemish sub-
jects of the Low Countries to insurrection,
284, 285. His preparations to stand a siege,
if necessary, from the Burgundians, 285.
His suppers with the citizens and their
wives, 285, note. His mistress, Perette de
Chalons, 285 note. Preparations of Charles
of Burgundy for war, 287, 288. Louis sum-
mons the estates of his provinces at Tours,
288. Puts the Sieur de Melun to death for
treason, 289. Amuses the Duke of Burgundy
with embassies and negotiations, 289. Com-
pels the Duke of Brittany to submit, 289.
Visits the Duke of Burgundy with a safe-
conduct, 290. Louis thrown into prison, 291.
Terms by which he regains his freedom, 292.
Marches with the Duke to Liege, which is
destroyed, 293. Returns to France, 295.
His arrangement with his brother, as to his
fief, 295. His punishment of Cardinal Balne
for treason, 295. His intrigues in English
affairs, 296. Recovers the towns of the
Somme, 298. Concludes a truce for a year,
299. Death of his brother, the Duke of
Guyenne, 300. Rupture of the treaty in
consequence, 300. Again concludes a truce
with Burgundy, 302. His position and the
Duke's compared, 303. Sends envoys to
Treves to cause dissension between the Em-
peror and the Duke, 306. Causes the murder
of the Count and Countess of Armagnac, 307.
At war with Ferdinand of Aragon respecting
Roussillon, 307. Peace concluded between
them, 307. Louis sends French agents to
the Rhine to prompt resistance to the Duke
of Burgundy, 310, 312. Promotes an alli-
ance between Austria and the Swiss, 310.
Pays the Swiss soldiers, who drive the Duke
of Burgundy out of Alsace, 312. Invasion
of France by Edward IV. and a formidable
army, 313.
Interview between the two
Kings at Picquigny, and conclusion of a
truce for seven years, 314.
Obtains posses-
sion of the Constable St. Pol, and executes
him for treason, 316, 317. Goes to Lyons
to be near the theatre of war, 320. His
generosity to the victorious Swiss, 321. Ob-
tains the release of his sister, the Duchess of
Savoy, 323. Death of his enemy, Charles
of Burgundy, 324, 325. Louis seizes the
towns of Picardy and Burgundy, 327.
Claims the hand of Mary of Burgundy for
the Dauphin, 328. Adhesion of various
towns sent in to him, 329. Proceeds to-
wards Flanders, 329. Endeavours to enter
Arras, 330. The city of which is handed
over to him, but not the town, 331. His
policy with respect to Mary of Burgundy,
331. Purchases and pensions the nobles of
Burgundy and England, 332. Sends Olivier
le Daim, his barber, on a mission to Ghent,
332. The King's treachery to the Duchess
of Burgundy, 332, 333. And its conse-
quences to himself, 334. Tournay tricked
by his barber into receiving a royal garrison,
335. Louis puts to death the envoys from
Arras, 335. His delight in spilling blood,
335, 336. His treatment of the Duke of
Nemours, 336. Makes a friend and pet of
Tristan, the executioner, 337. Sends reapers
into Artois instead of soldiers, 337, 338.
Takes Condé, but refuses to meet Maximilian
in the field, 339. Concludes a truce, 339.
Invades Franche Comté, sacks Dôle, and
compels the submission of Besançon, 339.
His general, Crevecœur, loses the battle of
Guinegate, 339. Louis abolishes his franc
archers, 340. Concludes a peace with Maxi-
milian, 341. Acquires Provence, 342. His
views of centralisation and absolutism, 343,
344. His last illness, 344. His paternal
advice to his son, 345. His death, 345. His
character, 345. Public men of his time, 350
Louis XII., King of France, when Duke of
Orleans, ii. 351. Married to Jeanne, daughter!
of Louis XI., 351. Made governor of the
Isle of France, Picardy, and Champagne,
352. Shares in the confiscations of the late
King's favourites, 352. Suggests the con-
vocation of the States-General, 354. Urges
the Estates to seize a portion of the execu-
tive power, 358. Appointed to preside in
the royal council during the absence of the
King, 361, 362. His discontent, and efforts
for the recovery of his influence, 362. Goes
to Brittany, but returns to the coronation of
Charles VIII., 362. René of Lorraine, raised
up by Anne of Beaujeu as a rival to him,
363. Aid afforded him by the Duke of
Brittany, 363. Who deserts him,
Compelled to submit at Beaugency, 363.
His complaints to the royal council against
the Lady Anne and her husband, 364.
Escapes from arrest in Paris, 364. Joins the
conspiracy to restore the authority of the Es-
tates, 366. Escapes to Rheims, 366. And
to Nantes, 367. His offers of submission to
the King rejected by the Regent, 367.
Meets the Royalists at St. Aubin, 367. De-
feated and taken prisoner, 368. Liberated
by Charles VIII., 372. And reconciled to
the Lady Anne, by the King, 372. Joins
Charles VIII. in his expedition to Italy, 382.
Defeats the troops of Naples near Genoa,
382. Falls ill, 382. Advances claims on
the duchy of Milan, 387. His hostilities
with Ludovico Sforza, 389. Besieged in
Novara, 389. Liberated by the treaty of
Vercelli, 391. Destined to inherit the crown
of France, 392. His magnanimity on his
accession, 395. Peers present at his coro-
nation, 395, note. His divorce from Jeanne,
396. And marriage to Anne of Brittany,
396, 397. His diminution of the taxes, 397.
His objection to assembling the Estates,
397.
Humbles the Parliament and the Uni-
versity, 398. His judicial reforms, 399, 400.
Restores and observes the Pragmatic Sanc-
tion, 400. Effect of his equity, considera-
tion, and economy on French institutions,
400. Growth of despotism and a rampant
aristocracy, 400. Domestic progress of
the French people during his reign, 401.
His appointment of a prime minister, 401.
His claim to the duchy of Milan, 403.
His proposals to Venice, and to the
House of Savoy, 403. Crosses the Alps
with an army, 405. Occupies Milan, 405.
His treatment of the duchy, 405, 406,
His alliances in Italy, 406. Loses Milan,
406. His severity to foreign princes, and
clemency at home, 408. Timidity of his
minister, D'Amboise, 409. Louis's treaty
with Ferdinand of Aragon for the partitic
of Naples, 410. Sends an army to Naples.
411. Which is taken, 411. Treaty of par
tition concluded, 412. His daughter Clands
affianced to Charles of Luxemburg, 412
The French driven out of Naples by the
Spaniards, 413-415. Refusal of the E-
peror to grant the investiture of Naples to
Louis, 416. Enters into an alliance with
Cæsar Borgia, 416. His army again de-
feated by the Spaniards in Naples, 417, 418.
And the French dominion in South Italy pet
an end to, 418. Louis's failure to tak
Fontarabia and reduce Roussillon, 418.
His ill health, 418, 421. Concludes a thre
years' truce with Ferdinand of Aragon, 415
Concessions made by his Queen to Maximilian.
420, 421. Invested with the Milanese, 421.
Breaks off with Maximilian, and affiances
Claude to Francis d'Angoulême, 421. To
which he obtains the sanction of the Estates
at Tours, 422. Marches with an army
against Genoa, 423. Which surrenders to
him, 424. Alarm of the Pope and Emperor
in consequence, 424. Louis's interview with
Ferdinand of Aragon, 425. Induced by D'An-
boise to quit Italy, 425. Joins the Leagu
of Cambray, 427. His answer to the Ve
netian envoy, 428. Raises an army, and
taxes Florence and Milan for its pay, 428.
Leads an army against the Venetians, 428.
And defeats them at Agnadello, 428, 429
Reaction in favour of the Venetians, 430
Enemies raised up against Louis by the
Pope and Ferdinand of Aragon, 431. Sends
another army into Lombardy, 431. Sum-
mons a council at Tours, 431. Takes R-
logna, 432. But forbears to follow up hi
success, 433. Formation of a league agsins
him, 433. Sends Gaston de Foix into the
Roman territories, 435. Gaston defeats the
Romans and Spaniards at Ravenna, 431
Louis's losses and reverses beyond the
Pyrenees and Alps, 437. Sends another
army into Italy, 438. Where they are de
feated by the Swiss at Novara, 438. Los
of the Milanese and Genoa, 439. Invaded
by his neighbours on all sides, 439. Loses
Thérouanne and Tournay. 440. Surrender
of the French strongholds in Italy, 440
Death of Anne of Brittany, 442. Marri
the Princess Mary of England, 442. He
death, 443. And character, 446
Louis XIII., King of France, his birth a
parentage, iii. 352. Assassination of hy
father, 379, 380. Holds a bed of justice
385. Affianced to Anne of Austria, 396
His journey south, 399. Declares himsel
of age, 400. And delegates all power to his
State of the finances at this
time, 404. His marriage, 408. Intercepted
on his return by the Huguenots, 408. Kept
in seclusion by his mother and Concini, 410.
His favourite, De Luynes, 410. Sends
secret assurances to the rebellious nobles in
Soissons, 413. Causes the assassination of
the Maréchal d'Ancre, 414. Receives the
homage of his subjects for the first time
freely, 415. His parting with his mother, who
is compelled to quit the court, 416.
tion of his council of state, 418. Escape of
his mother from confinement, 422.
between her and the court, 423.
to reduce the Queen-mother and nobles in
Angers, 424. Which is taken, 425. Terms
granted to the Queen, 426. Secures the
Dukes of Epernon and La Force, 426.
Pressed to march to the reduction of Bearn,
426. Embassy and proposals from the Em-
peror Ferdinand II., 427. Marches into,
and reduces, Bearn, 429. Defiance of the
Rochellois, 430. Leads his army in person,
430. Takes St. Jean d'Angely, 431. Cap-
tures Clerac, 432. Besieges Montauban,
which he is compelled to raise, 431. Alien-
ated from De Luynes, 431. Who is carried
off by fever, 432. Recommended to con-
tinue hostilities against the Huguenots, 433.
Hurries from Paris, and beats them, under
Soubise, 434. Reduces the Dordogne, 436.
And massacres the inhabitants of Negre-
pelisse, 436. Besieges Montpellier, 436.
Makes peace with the Huguenots at Mont-
pellier, 439. Joins Savoy and Venice for
the liberation of the Grisons and the Valte-
line, 440. Appoints La Vieuville finance
minister, 440. His religious and political
policy, 441. Offer of marriage from the
heir to the English throne, 442. Admits
Richelieu into the council, 442. Induced by
Richelieu to arrest and imprison his minister,
Vieuville, 448. His jealousy and zeal for
Catholicism, 450. Conclusion of the mar-
riage treaty with England, 451. Failure of
an expedition to Italy, 454. Capture of his
fleet at Blavet by Soubise, 455. Who is
subsequently defeated, with the assistance
of the Dutch fleet, 458. Complete estrange-
ment of the English and Dutch courts from
that of France, 459, 460. Richelieu's private
promises guaranteed by England, 462. The
King makes peace with Spain, and gives up
the Valteline in spite of Richelieu, 463.
His quarrel with his brother Gaston, 464.
State of his finances in 1626, 468. Quarrel
about the English Queen's French followers,
472. Concludes a treaty with the King of
Spain for the invasion of England, 473.
His preparations for the attack on La
Rochelle, 473, 474. Commencement of the
siege, 475. The King before the city, 475.
Richelieu's dyke, 476. Return of the King
to Paris, 477. Marches into Dauphiné,
forces the pass of Susa, and reduces the
Duke of Savoy, 481. Concludes peace with
England, and turns his arms against the
Huguenots, 481. His massacre of the
Huguenots of Privas, 482. Concludes peace
with the southern Huguenots, 483. Retire-
ment of his brother Gaston to Lorraine, 486,
487. Influence of bigoted counsels over
him, 488. Nominates Richelieu prime
minister and lieutenant-general, 490. Sends
an army, under the cardinal, into Italy, 490.
Conclusion of the treaty of Ratisbon, 496.
Louis's illness and recovery, 497. Promises
his wife and mother to dismiss Richelieu,
498. Dismisses him, but restores him the
same day, 499, 500. Invades Lorraine with
him, 505. Lorraine finally crushed, 511.
A French army sent to aid the Germans,
511. Louis reconciled to his brother Gaston,
511. Results of the campaign of 1635, 512.
Hands over Alsace to the Duke of Saxe
Weimar, 513. Disastrous campaign of
1636, 513. Advance of the Spaniards to
the Oise, 513. But are driven within their
own frontier, 514. Alsace secured to France,
516. Louis goes to Roussillon, 519. Which
he obtains, as well as Catalonia, 519. His
Platonic amours, 529. Birth of his son,
the future Louis XIV., 531. His favourite,
Cinq Mars, 532. Louis's disgust of the policy
and person of Richelieu, 536. With whom
he marches into Catalonia, 536, 537.
Gradually alienated from Cinq Mars, 537.
Whom he gives up to Richelieu, 539. His
interview with the cardinal at Tarascon,
539. Death of Richelieu, 541. Louis's last
illness, 542. Proclaims the Queen regent,
542. His death, 544. And character, 544.
Louis XIV., King of France, his birth, iii. 531.
His answer to his father after his christen-
ing, 543. Death of his father, 544. His
journey with his mother to Paris, 554.
Holds a bed of justice, 569. Omer Talon's
address to him. 582. Flies from Paris to
St. Germain's, 592. Returns to Paris, 598.
Declares himself of age, 615. Puts himself
at the head of his army, and marches to
Bourges, 615. Witnesses the conflict be-
tween Condé and Turenne in the Faubourg
St. Antoine, 624. Removes from St. Denis
to Pontoise, 628. Re-enters Paris an ab-
solute king, 629, 630. Banishes the leaders
of the Fronde, 632. His marriage with the
Infanta proposed, 639. Endeavours of
Mazarin to procure him the imperial crown,
639. The hand of the Infanta offered by
the King of Spain, 641. Enamoured of
Mazarin's nieces, 642. Concludes the treaty
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