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                         PRINCES AND POISONERS

                  _BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR_

LEGENDS OF THE BASTILLE. BY FRANTZ FUNCK-BRENTANO. With an Introduction
by VICTORIEN SARDOU. Translated by GEORGE MAIDMENT. 1899. Crown 8vo.
Cloth, 6_s._

CONTENTS.--I. The Archives; II. History of the Bastille; III. Life in
the Bastille; IV. The Man in the Iron Mask; V. Men of Letters in the
Bastille; VI. Latude; VII. The Fourteenth of July.

LONDON: DOWNEY AND CO., LIMITED.

[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF GABRIEL NICOLAS DE LA REYNIE

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL OF POLICE

(_Engraved by Van Schuppen, after the painting by Mignard_)]




                         Princes and Poisoners

                   STUDIES OF THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV

                                   BY
                         FRANTZ FUNCK-BRENTANO

                             TRANSLATED BY
                            GEORGE MAIDMENT

                        [Illustration: colphon]

                                 LONDON
                          _DUCKWORTH and CO._
                        3 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
                                  1901

                     _Second Impression, May 1901_

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PREFATORY NOTE


Twelve months ago I had the honour of introducing M. Frantz
Funck-Brentano to the English public by my translation of his _Legendes
et Archives de la Bastille_, and in my