Vincennes [District of Paris], 2, 84, 132; china flowers from 128; factory at, 132; vase, 151; holy water vessel, 165
Vintimille, Pauline Félicité, Marquise de (1712–41), a mistress of Louis XV, 12, 25, 26, 152, 227
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694–1778, called), 21, 22, 35, 36–7, 42, 165, 168, 173, 209; at Etioles, 43–4; his poem and opera on Fontenoy, 47–8, 51, 52–3; elected to the Académie française, 52; on Mme de P., 53, 80; at Versailles, 111; goes to Lunéville, 112–13; annoyance with Mme de P., 113, 114; Treaty of Versailles, 1756 and 177; Byng and 178–9; Damiens and 193, 194; on American war 195; Lisbon earthquake and 197; reconciled to Mme de P., 218, 221, 225; and the case of Jean Calas, 219–20; on the death of Mme de P., 232
Vrillière, Comte de St Florentin, Duc de la (1705–77), 188
Walpole, Horace: see Orford, 4th Earl of
Well Beloved: name bestowed on Louis XV in 1744, 14
Wesel, on the Rhine, 208
Weser, river, 198, 208
Young, Arthur (1741–1820), 196
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