CHAPTER II

. THE HOTEL DE RAMBOUILLET Mme. De Rambouillet--The

Salon Bleu--Its Habitues--Its Diversions--Corneille--Balzac--Richelieu--Romance of the Grand Conde--the Young Bossuet--Voiture--The Duchesse de Longueville--Angelique Paulet--Julie d'Angennes--Les Precieuses Ridicules--Decline of the Salon--Influence upon Literature and Manners

## CHAPTER III . MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDERY AND THE SAMEDIS Salons of the

Noblesse--"The Illustrious Sappho"--Her Romances--The Samedis--Bons Mots of Mme. Cornuel--Estimate of Mlle. De Scudery

## CHAPTER IV . LA GRANDE MADEMOISELLE Her Character--Her Heroic Part in the

Fronde--Her Exile--Literary Diversions of her Salon--A Romantic Episode

## CHAPTER V . A LITERARY SALON AT PORT ROYAL Mme. De Sable--Her

Worldly Life--Her Retreat--Her Friends--Pascal--The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld--Last Days of the Marquise

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