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Index
Cover
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PRELUDE: THE GREAT COACH – Thursday, 12 September 1678 –
I: THE EDUCATION OF A COURTIER 1605 – 1622
II: THE MADRID EMBASSY 1622 – 1623
III: COURTING THE LOUVRE 1624 – 1628
IV: TWO DISPUTED CASES OF PATERNITY 1628 – 1635
V: SIR WILLIAM D’AVENANT’S DREAM OF MADAGASCAR 1635 – 1637
VI: ‘SPEAK WITH MR JERMYN ABOUT IT’ 1637 – 1640
VII: ‘DO SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY’ 1641
VIII: COLONEL LORD JERMYN 1641 – 1643
IX: ‘THE STRONGEST PILLAR IN THE LAND’ 1644
X: ‘SOME SUCCOUR FOR ENGLAND’ 1644 – 1645
XI: THE ‘GREAT HELL-CAT’ 1645-6
XII: ‘THE LOUVRE PRESBYTER’ 1646 – 1649
XIII: ‘OUR OWN CONDITION IS LIKE TO BE VERY SAD’. 1649 – 1656
XIV: THE CHÂTEAU OF COLOMBES 1656 – 1660
XV: RESTORATION! 1660 – 1662
XVI: ‘GRAND MASTER OF THE FREEMASONS’ 1662
XVII: SOMERSET HOUSE 1662 – 1663
XVIII: THE SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR 1664 – 1666
XIX: THE ROAD TO BREDA 1666 – 1667
XX: THE GRAND DESIGN 1667 – 1668
XXI: SAINT-DENIS 1669
XXII: THE SECRET TREATY OF DOVER 1669 – 1678
XXIII: ‘JOINING TOGETHER TO SURPASS ALL OTHERS’ 1678 – 1685
XXIV: ‘THE FUNERAL OF GLORY’? 1685 – present
ELEGY: January 1684
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES ON SOURCES
Copyright
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