298 Readings in European History BIBLIOGRAPHY A. Refer- ences. Sketch of Louis XIV s Reign : Schwill, Modern Europe, pp. 200- 214; Adams, G. B., The Growth of the French Nation, Chapter XIII, pp. 202-233 ; Perkins, France under the Regency, Chapter V, pp. 129—160. Colbert and his Reforms: Perkins, Chapter IV, pp. 90-128; Wakeman, European History, 7jg8-iyij, Chapter IX, pp. 184-205. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes : Perkins, Chapter VI, pp. 164- 207. Antecedents of the War of the Spanish Succession : Wakeman, Chapter XIV, pp. 311-339. War of the Spanish Succession : Cheyney, Short History of Eng- land, pp. 529-535 ; Perkins, Chapter VIII, pp. 239-292 ; Wakeman, Chapter XV, pp. 340-363. Treaty of Utrecht: Wakeman, pp. 363-371 ; Dyer and Hassall, Modern Europe, Vol. IV, pp. 107-116. B. Addi- tional read- ing in English. C. Materials for advanced study. Hassall, Louis XIV arid the Zenith of the French Monarchy, 1897 (Heroes of the Nations Series). Kitchin, History of France, Vol. III. Baird, The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 2 vols., 1895. A careful and elaborate work by a warm partisan. Saint-Simon, Memoirs, 4 vols. A much-abridged translation of the voluminous original. See below, under C. Life and Letters of Charlotte Elizabeth, Mother of Philippe d' 'Orleans, London, 1889. A selection from the many letters which a German princess, who married Louis XIV's brother, dispatched to her friends. See below, under C. Comtesse DE Puliga, Madame de Sevigne, her Correspo?tdents and Cotitemporaries, 2 vols., London, 1873. Gives some idea of this charm- ing letter writer. See below, under C. Claude, Jean, The Cruel Persecutions of the Protestants in the King- dom of France, Boston, 1893. The author, who published his book immediately after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, was a leading Huguenot and the pastor of the great Protestant church at Charenton, near Paris. Gerard, The Peace of Utrecht, 1885. Really a history of the War of the Spanish Succession. Histoire generate, edited by Lavisse and Rambaud, Vol. VI, Chapters I, III-VIII. Excellent bibliographies.
