MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHIES, ETC. 5 



SOPHIE DA WES, QUEEN OF CHANTILLY. 



By VIOLETTE M. MONTAGU. Author of "The Scottish College in 

 Paris," etc. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other 

 Illustrations and Three Plans. Demy 8vo. (9x5! inches.) 

 izs. 6d. net. 



V* Among the many queens of France, queens by right of marriage with the reigning 

 sovereign, queens 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 

 Peucheres, "The Qneen 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 1 6 other Illustrations and Facsmile Reproductions 

 of Hitherto Unpublished Letters. Demy 8vo. (9X5! inches.) 

 izs. 6d. net. 



*#* A time when the Italians are celebrating the Jubilee 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 HUGH STOKES. With a Photogravure 

 Frontispiece and 1 6 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. (9X5! 

 inches.) 123. 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 way to execution. This chief tfoeuvre 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 EUGENE WELVERT. Translated from the French 

 by LILIAN O'NEILL. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 

 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. (9 X 5| inches.) I2s.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 

 gathered the most remarkable characters of the days of the Old Regime, the 

 Revolution and the fist 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. 



