Contents and List of Citations xix PAGE 340a. Outrageous vanity of the king 286 Ibid. p. 84 VI. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) 341. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 287 Isambert (as above, No. 333), XIX, 530 sqq. 342. Saint-Simon's account of the revocation 291 Memoires; ed. le marquis de Saint-Simon (1829), XIII, 115 (under the year 171 5); trans, by Bayle St. John, III, 3 sq. VII. Opening of the War of the Spanish Succession 343. How the War of the Spanish Succession came about . 293 Marquis de Torcy (Charles Baptiste Colbert), Memoires, Michaud et Poujoulat, Nouvelle Collection de memoires, XXXII, 550. Also in English translation 344. How Louis XIV proclaimed the duke of Anjou king of Spain 295 Saint-Simon, Memoires (as above, No. 342), III, 38 sq.; Vol. I, 183, of English translation 345. Attitude of England at the opening of the war . . . 296 Marquis de Torcy, Memoires (as above, No. 343), 552 sqq. CHAPTER XXXII — RISE OF RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA I. Ivan the Terrible 346. An Englishman's impressions of Ivan the Terrible (1567) 3d " The Discovery of Muscovy," reprinted from Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries (Lon- don, 1893), p. 143 II. Peter the Great 347. Bishop Burnet's impressions of Peter the Great in 1698 303 Burnet, History of his Own Time (1734), II, 221 sq. 348. An Austrian's account of Peter's way of treating rebels 305 Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Czar Peter the Great, trans, from the original Latin by Count MacDonnell (2 vols., London, 1862), II, 85 sqq., 106 sq., and in. This exceedingly rare Diarmm itineris in Muscoviam was written by Johann Georg von Korb, probably in 1700 349. How the tsar promoted Alexander Gordon 306 Alexander Gordon, The History of Peter the Great (i755)> ! > v m-
