The Sun King (36 page)

Tallart, Camille d'Hostun, Comte, later Duc de (1652–1728), Maréchal de France (1703),
129–30
,
137
,
150

tapis vert
, Versailles,
12

Tellier, Père,
see
Le Tellier, Père Michel

Testu, Jacques (1626–1706), Abbé de Belval, on Mme de Montespan and her sisters,
31

La Thébaide
(Racine: 1664),
93

Thétis, Grotte de,
68

Thianges, Gabrielle de Rochechouart, Marquise de (d. 1693), sister of Mme de Montespan,
26
,
30f
,
46ff

Tingry, Princesse de: involved in poisons scandal,
56
,
58

Titian (d. 1576),
39

Torcy, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de (1665–1746),
125
,
128
,
136
,
144

Les Torrents
(Guyon),
118

Toulouse, Louis-Alexandre, Comte de (1678–1737), youngest son of Mme de Montespan and Louis XIV,
50
,
62
,
68
,
127
,
132
,
160–1
,
163
,
164
; his hounds,
64
; operated on for stone,
100
; marriage,
133
; at Louis XIV's deathbed,
169

Toulouse, Marie de Noailles, Comtesse de,
133

Tournai (Belgium),
30
,
155

Trappists,
95
;
see also
La Trappe

Trianon, hamlet near Versailles,
9

Trianon, poisoner,
60

Trianon in porcelain,
23

Triomphe de Flore
(Poussin),
71

Troy, François de (1645–1730),
72

Tuileries, Palais de, Paris,
23
,
93

Turenne, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de (1611–75),
16f
,
136

Turks: in French navy,
20
; invading Europe,
85

Unigenitus, Papal Bull,
164

Utrecht, Treaties of (1713),
165

Van Dyck, Sir Anthony (1599–1641),
39

Vardes, François-René du Bec-Crespin (1621–88),
92f

Vatican,
120
;
see also
Rome, Church of

Vauban, Sebastien le Prestre, Seigneur de (1633–1707),
66
,
136

Vaugirard, suburb of Paris,
29
; rue de,
103

Vaux-le-Vicomte (District of Paris), Château de,
10f
,
18
,
23
; renamed Vaux-Villars,
164

Vendôme, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duc de (1654–1712),
58
,
145
; loses Battle of Oudenarde (1708),
150–2
,
157
; success in Spain,
152
,
164
; Marie-Anne de Bourbon-Condé, Duchesse de (1678–1718),
150

Venetian Republic,
19
,
40
,
164

Venetian School of painting,
39

Venice, Little, Versailles,
40

Ventadour, Charlotte-Eléonore de La Mothe Houdancourt, Duchesse de (1661–1744),
101
,
166
,
168
; saves life of the child Louis (XV),
162

Vermandois, Louis de Bourbon, Comte de (1667–83), Admiral of France, son of Mme de La Vallière and the King,
93
,
139

Verneuil, Charlotte Séguier, Duchesse de Sully, later Duchesse de (1623–1704),
127f

Verneuil, Henri de Bourbon, Duc de,
127

Veronese, Paolo (1528–88),
39

Versailles (town),
23
,
24
,
65

Versailles, Château de: the love of Louis XIV's life,
9f
,
12
,
17
; water supply,
11
; courtiers' and ministers' objections,
11
,
13
; the
enveloppe,
15f,
23
,
32–41
,
63
; baths and sanitation,
36
; pictures at,
39
; declared the seat of government (1682),
53
,
63
; ‘A City of the Rich',
63–9
; Princes' and Nobles' wings,
64f
; life and etiquette at,
67–9
; changes made in later ages,
68–9
,
75
; Grand Dauphin's apartment at,
70f
; new regimes at,
92–9
; Portland as English ambassador to,
122
et seqq.;
etiquette,
127–8
; Marie-Adelaide at,
135
; Anjou introduced as King of Spain at,
138
; La Bruyère on,
140
; during Spanish War of Succession,
145
,
146
; cold winter of 1709,
154
,
154–5
; smallpox and measles at,
161–2
; Noailles exiled from,
164
; death of Louis XIV at,
166
;
see also
Bains, Appartement des; Cabinet Doré; Chapel; Glaces, Galerie des; Grand Appartement; Orangery; Queen's staircase; Suisses, Pièce d'Eau des;
tapis vert

Vexin, Comte de, second son of Mme de Montespan and the King: birth,
30
; death,
44

Vichy (Allier), spa,
46

Victoire, Princess of Bavaria (1660–90), m. the Grand Dauphin (1679),
71
,
77
,
84
,
86
,
92
,
144
; personal appearance,
72
; birth of the Duc de Bourgogne,
72–4
; birth of Duc d'Anjou,
78
; birth of Duc de Berri,
83
; illness and death,
83
,
127
,
134

Victoria (1819), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837,
23

Vigoureux, Mme: involved in poisons scandal,
54f
; death under torture,
57
,
60

Villacerf, Edouard Colbert, Marquis de (1628–99),
127–8

Villarceau, Louis de Mornay, Marquis de (1619–91),
81

Villars, Claude-Louis-Hector, Duc de (1653–1734), Maréchal de France (1707),
164–5
; his wife,
164

Villars-Brancas, Duc de: proposed as husband for Mme Scarron,
43

Villeroy, François de Neufville, Duc et Maréchal de (1644–1730),
85
,
86
,
152
,
164

Villette, Marquis de (d. 1707), m. 1695 Marie Claire Deschamps de Marcilly (later Viscountess Bolingbroke),
111

Vincennes (district of Paris),
9
,
12
,
169
; prison,
55
,
57
,
59
,
61

Vincent de Paul (1576–1660: canonized 1737),
75
; order of Saint,
116

Vitry, Duchesse de, and poisons scandal,
56

Vivonne, Duc de,
see
Mortemart et de Vivonne

Vivonne, Duchesse de,
56

Voisin (Catherine Deshayes, Mme Monvoisin, called) La (c. 1640–80),
26f
,
45
,
48
,
55
,
158
; arrested,
51f
,
56
,
62
; death by burning,
57
,
59f

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778, called),
40
,
62
,
96
,
112
,
124
,
164
; quoted,
53

Vouet, Simon (1590–1649),
22
,
23

William, Prince of Orange, called the Silent (1533–84),
123
,
163

William III (1650–1702), Prince of Orange, Stadholder of the United Provinces from 1672, King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1689; 16f,
86
,
97
,
143
,
144
; consults Fagon,
103
; and the Spanish Succession,
122f
,
128–9
,
139
; relations with Albemarle and Bentinck,
124f
; plot to assassinate him,
125–6
; receives report from Portland,
126–8
; and the Comte de Tallart,
129–30
,
131
; Second Partition Treaty,
136
,
139
,
145
; for his mother,
see
Stuart, Mary; for his wife, Mary II

Windsor: Le Nôtre to make designs for,
126–7

Woodstock, Lord,
124

Works of a Seven Year Old Author (Duc du Maine),
49–50

Ypres (Belgium),
155