Women and the Sun King -- Grande Mademoiselle -- Madame de La Fayette -- Madame de Sévigné -- Port-Royal and the Arnauld sisters -- Mancinis and the Montespan -- Mary of Modena -- Mary II -- Duchess of Marlborough -- Lady Masham -- Queen Anne -- English Succession and the Electress of Hanover -- Madame de Maintenon -- Queen Christina, the Corneille heroine.