Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prelude: September 5, 1661 -- 1 The Long Reach -- 2 The Superintendant at Work -- 3 Fall of a Titan -- 4 Setting the Stage and Writing the Script -- 5 The Best-Laid Plans of Men and Ministers -- 6 To Do Justice without Consideration of Fortune or Self-Interest -- 7 A Performance beyond Comparison -- 8 The Honor and Conscience of Judges -- 9 Aftermath: The Price of Honor and Conscience -- Appendix. Ministerial Fortunes in Seventeenth-Century France -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V.