MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, Etc. 5 
SOPHIE DAWES, QUEEN OF CHANTILLY. 
By Vioterre M. Montacu. Author of “The Scottish College in 
Paris,” etc. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other 
Illustrations and Three Plans. Demy 8vo. (9X 5# inches.) 
12s, 6d. net. 
*,*Among the many queens of France, queens by right of marriage with the reigning 
saletiae guecne of beauty or of intrigue, the name of Sophie Dawes, the daughter 
of humble fisherfolk in the Isle of Wight, better known as “the notorious Mme. de 
Feucheres,” ‘The Queen of Chantilly” and ‘‘The Montespan de Saint Leu” in the land 
which she chose as a suitable sphere in which to excercise her talents for money- 
making and for getting on in the world, stand forth as a proof of what a women’s will 
can accomplish when that will is accompanied with. an uncommon share of intelligence. 
MARGARET OF FRANCE DUCHESS (OF 
SAVOY. 1523-1574. A Biography with Photogravure Frontis- 
piece and 16 other Illustrations and Facsmile Reproductions 
of Hitherto Unpublished Letters. Demy 8vo. (9X 5# inches.) 
12s. 6d. net. 
*,.* A time when the Italians are celebrating the Jubliee of the Italian Kingdom 
is perhaps no unfitting moment in which to glance back over the annals of that royal 
House of Savoy which has rendered Italian unity possible. Margaret of France may 
without exaggeration be counted among the builders of modern Italv. She married 
Emanuel Philibert, the founder of Savoyard greatness: and from the day of her 
marriage until the day of her death she laboured to advance the interests of her 
adopted land. 
MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS AND HER 
TIMES. 1630-1676. By Hucu Sroxrs. With a Photogravure 
Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. (9x5? 
inches.) 12s. 6d. net. 
*,* The name of Marie Marguerite d’ Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, is famous 
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 wayto execution. This chief d’oeuvre of misery and 
agony forms the frontispiece to the volume, and strikes a fitting keynote to an 
absorbing story of human passion and wrong-doing. 
THE VICISSITUDES OF A LADY-IN-WAITING. 
1735-1821. By Eucrene Wetvert. ‘Translated from the French 
by Lizian O’Neitt. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 
other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. (9X 5#inches.) 12s. 6d. net. 
*,* The Duchesse de Narbonne-Lara was Lady-in-Waiting to Madame Adelaide, 
the eldest daughter of Louis XV. Around the stately figure of this Princess are 
pecs the most remarkable characters of the days of the Old Regime, the 
evolutionand thefist Empire. The great charm of the work is that it takes us over so 
much and varied ground. Here, in the gay crowd of ladies and courtiers, in the rustle 
of flowery silken paniers, in the clatter of high-heeled shoes, move the figures of 
Louis XV., Louis XVI,, Du Barri and Marie-Antoinette. We catch picturesque 
glimpses of the great wits, diplomatists and soldiers of the time, until, finally we 
encounter Napoleon Bonaparte. 
