MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. ~ i7 

 SOPHIE DAWES, QUEEN OF CHANTILLY. 



By VioLtiTTE M. Montagu. Author of "The Scottish College in 

 Paris," etc. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and i6 other 

 Illustrations and Three Plans. Demy 8vo. i zs. 6d. net. 



%* Ainon^ the many queens of France, queens by right ofmarriaire witli the 

 re.gmno- sovereign, queens of beauty or of intrigue the name of Sophie Dawes, 

 the daughter of humble fisherlolk in the Isle of Wight, better known as "the 



de Sa'inf I iT-'-n^H^^^f^T'-K-'J^^ Q".^^" of Chanting" and -The Montespan 

 de Saint Leu in the land which she chose as a suitable sphere in which to 

 exercise her talents for money-making and for getting on in the world, stand 

 forth as a proof of what a woman s will can accomplish when that will is ac- 

 companied with an uncommon share of intelligence. 



MARGARET OF FRANCE DUCHESS OF 



SAVOY. 1 5 23- 1 574. A Biography with Photogravure Frontis- 

 piece and 16 other Illustrations and Facsimile Reproductions 

 of Hitherto Unpublished Letters. Demy 8vo. i 2s. 6d. net. 



„. V A time when the Italians are celebrating the Jubilee of the Italian 

 ^f iWo.^r'li '^P^^'h^PS no unfitting moment in which to glance back over the annals 

 of that royal House of Savoy which has rendered Italian unity possible. Margaret 

 ofFrance may without exaggeration be counted among the l^uilders of modern 

 &Vv,^H^"'^T^^ i-manuel Philibert, the founder of Savoyard greatness; and 

 fL^JnttettLlherXpt^^la^"^^^ the day of her death she laboufed to advance 



MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS AND HER 



TIMES. 1 630- 1 676. By Hugh Stokes. With a Photogravure 

 Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s.6d.net. 



fammllTn th''''"'^ ?^ ^^'''^ Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, is 

 famous in the annals of crime, but the true history of her career is little known 

 A woman of birth and rank, she was also a remorseless poisoner and her trial 

 was one of the most sensational episodes of the early reign of Louis XIV The 

 author was attracted to this curious subject by Charles le Brun's realistic sketch 

 of the unhappy Marquise as she appeared on^her way to execution ThfsS 

 fitdnXvnn.'ft'^ and agony forms the frontispiece to the volume, and strikes a 

 fitting keynote to an absorbing st Dry of human passion and wrong-doing. 



THE VICISSITUDES OF A LADY-IN WAITING. 



1 7 3 5- 1 8 2 1 . By Eugene Welvert. Translated from the French 

 by Lilian O'Neill With a Pnotogravure Frontispiece and 16 

 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 125. 6d. net. 



A^J**.-^Ht ^"P'^esse de Narbonne-Lara was Lady-in- Waiting to Madame 

 Adelaide, the eldest daughter of Louis XV. Around the stately^figure of ?Ss 

 Re^'^.^b^%^^'^^?^ the most remarkable characters ot the days^ of tSe Old 

 Regime, he Revolution and the first Empire. The great charm of the vvork is 

 hat It takes us over so much and varied ground, liere, in the -ay crowd of 

 ladies and courtiers, in the rustle of flowery silken paniers in the cla tter of hieh- 



AnSn.nr''w''^^' K^ ^^""^^ °^ ^^'^'^ '^^- Louis XVI.,' Du Barri and Marie- 

 Antoinette. We catch picturesque glimpses of the great wits diplomatists and 

 soldiers of the time, until, finally wl encounter Napoleon Bonaparte? 



ANNALS OF A YORKSHIRE HOUSE. From 



the Papers of a Macaroni and his kindred. By A. M. W. Stirling, 

 author of "Coke of Norfolk and his Friends." With 33 

 Illustrations, including 3 in Colour and 3 in Photogravure. 

 Demy 8vo. 2 vols. 32s. net. 



