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Jesuits, 33

Johnson, Dr., 88

Jouy, Ernest, 28

Kipling, Rudyard, 152, quoted, 90

Konrad, the monk, 135-6

La Bruyere, 55-93; birth and parentage, 58; La Bruyere at Chantilly, 64; contrasted with La Rochefoucauld, 57, described as "Menippe," 65, in the House of Conde, 65, 90, at Fontainebleau, 64, Paris, 64; at Versailles, 64; his "Caracteres," 55-57; 66-72, 76, 78, 83, his "Dialogues," 92

La Bruyere, Louis, 58

La Fayette, Mme de, 36, 37, 39, 45, 46, 48-50

La Fontaine, 47; "Fables" of, 49 n

Lagrange, Henri, xiv

Lamb, Charles, 58

Lantil, Leo, 139

La Rochefoucauld, Duc de, 3-52, birth and descent, 8, 9; marriage, 10; his "Letters," his "Maximes," xvi, 4-6, 33,47, 51, 52, 57, his "Memoires," 9-17, 21, 23-25; his portrait by himself, 22-25 by Petitot, 19, by Cardinal de Retz, 17

Lauzun, Duc de, 80

La Vergne, Marie de, see La Fayette, Mme de

Lille, 164

Lintier, Paul, 3, 4, 131, 140-149, 163, 169

Lister, Charles, 164

Locke, John, 74, 124, 126

Longeville-les-Metz, 147

Longueville, Mme de, 14, 18, 39 40 n

Lorraine, 146

Loti, Pierre, 152

Louis XIII, 8, 9, 13, 14

Louis XIV., 84

Louis XV, 84, 117, 123

Luxembourg (Palace), 23, 64

Lyons, 141, 155

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