Political Women, Vol. 1

by active 1840-1883 Sutherland Menzies

INDEX.

• Aiguillon, Duchess d’, her resentment against Condé for forcing her young nephew Richelieu into a clandestine marriage, i. [174].
• Ancre, Marshal d’, assassinated, i. [17].
• Anet, Château d’, a haunt of conspirators against Mazarin, i. [105].
• Anne of Austria, Queen of Louis XIII. of France, her reception of Mad. de Chevreuse on her return from exile, i. [39];
  • her dread of adventures and enterprises, [39];
  • Mazarin’s entire ascendancy over her, [47];
  • hesitates to take a decided attitude between Mazarin and his enemies, [65];
  • evidence of her love for Mazarin, [100];
  • her Regency opens under most brilliant auspices, [101];
  • the conspiracy to take Mazarin’s life determines her to adopt his policy, [102];
  • orders the arrest of Beaufort, [104];
  • her lively displeasure at the duel between Guise and Coligny, [116];
  • her jealous feeling against Madame de Longueville, [122];
  • retires before the Fronde to St. Germain, [155];
  • her endeavour to mortify the ladies of the Fronde by giving a day-light ball, [170];
  • her delight at seeing Condé and the Frondeurs at daggers drawn, [174];
  • secretly confers with De Retz relative to the arrest of Condé, Conti and Longueville; gives the fatal order for that coup d’état,[176];
  • orders the arrest of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Bouillon, [178];
  • quits Paris for Rouen to confront Madame de Longueville, [180];
  • the affirmation of the Duchess d’Orleans that the Queen had secretly married Mazarin, [201];
  • evidence of such marriage, [202];
  • finds herself in some sort a prisoner on the proscription of Mazarin, [216];
  • seriously prepares to make head against Condé, [257];
  • her fervour, constancy, and marvellous skill manifested towards weakening Condé, [258];
  • the great danger of herself, the King, and Mazarin at Gien, [287].
• Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, Duchess de Longueville, her birth and parentage, i. [1];
  • her desire for conventual seclusion, [5];
  • her great personal beauty, [7];
  • her character, [10];
  • suitors for her hand, [12];
  • married to the Duke de Longueville, [13];
  • her conduct towards a crowd of adorers, [14];
  • has a formidable enemy in the Duchess of Montbazon, [66];
  • the quarrel between the rival Duchesses in the affair of the dropped letter, [71];
  • public apology made her by Madame de Montbazon, [74];
  • unoccupied with politics at this juncture, [79];
  • error of the Importants in not conciliating her, [79];
  • scandalised by Coligny’s championship of her in the duel with Guise, [117];
  • said to have witnessed the duel from behind a window-curtain, [118];
  • verses on the occasion, [118];
  • Miossens (afterwards Marshal d’Albret) tries in vain to win her heart, [121];
  • her two individualities of opposite natures, [122];
  • her defective education, [122];
  • character of her epistolary style, [123];
  • the different kind of education given by Ménage to Madame de Sevigné and Madame de la Fayette, [124];
  • the conquest of her heart and mind by La Rochefoucauld, [125];
  • résumé of her life (up to 1648), 131;
  • queen of the Congress of Munster, [133];
  • acquires a taste for political discussions and speculations, [134];
  • Madame de Motteville’s portrait of her at this period (1647), [135];
  • she sacrifices everything for La Rochefoucauld, [140];
  • exercises a somewhat ridiculous empire over her brother Conti, [142];
  • fatal influence of her passion for La Rochefoucauld, [149];
  • throws herself into the first Fronde, [149];
  • ultimately involves in it every member of her family, [150];
  • arrayed against her brother Condé in civil war, [154];
  • she shares all the fatigues of the siege of Paris, [157];
  • her energy and intrepidity, [158];
  • is given up as a hostage to the Parliament by her husband, [159];
  • gives birth to Charles de Paris, the Child of the Fronde, in the Hotel de Ville, [159];
  • is reconciled to Condé, resumes her ascendancy over him, and detaches him from Mazarin, [162];
  • her embarrassment on reappearing at Court, [163];
  • the perilous path she is led into by her infatuation for La Rochefoucauld, [166];
  • undertakes to mislead Condé and give him over to Spain, [167];
  • the Queen orders her to be arrested; she escapes to Normandy with La Rochefoucauld, [179];
  • her adventures in Normandy. She raises the standard of revolt at Dieppe, [180];
  • pursued by the Queen, she assumes male attire and reaches Rotterdam and Stenay, [181];
  • becomes the motive power of “the Women’s War” or Second Fronde, [182];
  • the message from her dying mother, [183];
  • her gracious reception by their Majesties on her return from Stenay, [222];
  • the most brilliant period of her career, [223];
  • the idol of Spain, the terror of the Court, and one of the grandeurs of her family, [223];
  • her motives for opposing the marriage of her brother with Mademoiselle de Chevreuse, [228];
  • urges Condé to cut the knot, and make war upon the Crown, [246];
  • her conduct, feelings and motives examined at this juncture, [247];
  • was she the cause of the rupture of Conti’s projected marriage, [248];
  • peremptorily commanded to join her husband in Normandy, [253];
  • she perceives a change in La Rochefoucauld’s feelings, [254];
  • follows the Princess de Condé into Berri, [254];
  • the Duke de Nemours pays court to her, [262];
  • certain obscure relations between them drives La Rochefoucauld to a violent rupture, [264];
  • a rivalry of beauty leads her to humiliate Madame de Châtillon, [265];
  • how Madame de Longueville fell into “the scandalous chronicle,” [266];
  • her grave cause of complaint against La Rochefoucauld, [266];
  • Madame de Châtillon attempts to ruin her in Condé’s estimation, [296];
  • her fatal policy in the Fronde arrests the national greatness for ten years, and nearly ruins the House of Condé, [296];
  • the disgraceful conspiracy formed against her, [298].
• Aristocracy in France, its constitution in the reign of Louis XIV., i. [217].

• Beaufort, Francis de Vendôme, Duke de (called the “King of the Markets”), a suitor for the hand of Anne de Bourbon, [12];
  • a leader of the Importants, [15];
  • a rival of Mazarin in the Queen’s good graces, [52];
  • his character as sketched by La Rochefoucauld, [52];
  • becomes the led-captain of Madame de Montbazon, and the bitterest enemy of Mazarin, [53];
  • his spite against Madame de Longueville, [71];
  • his conduct in the affair of the dropped letters, [73];
  • insinuates that they were from Coligny, [71];
  • irritated at the banishment of Madame de Montbazon, he enters into a plot against Mazarin, [76];
  • the ungovernable impetuosity of his vengeance against Madame de Longueville strongly stigmatised, [80];
  • prepares an ambuscade to slay Mazarin, [95];
  • the plot fails, [99];
  • is arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes, [105];
  • released by the Fronde and becomes master of Paris, [154];
  • Madame de Montbazon exercises plenary power over him, [208];
  • becomes one of the most conspicuous leaders of the Fronde, [215].
• • his denunciation of the evils of Richelieu’s inordinate authority, [91].
• Beaupuis, Count de, detected plotting against Mazarin, escapes to Rome, [86];
• Beauty in Woman, true definition of, [8].
  • one of the party of the Malcontents, [109];
  • joins Condé at Saint-Maur, [245].
• Bouillon, de la Tour d’Auvergne, Duke de, conspires against Richelieu, [25];
  • quite as ardent in politics as Madame de Longueville, [206];
  • arrested by the Queen’s order at her daughter’s bedside, and thrown into the Bastille, [206].
• Bouillon, Duchess de, given up as a hostage to the Fronde, [159];
• Bridieu, Marquis de, acts as second to Guise in duel with Coligny, [113].
• Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, his political correspondence with Madame de Chevreuse, [19].
• Burnet, Bishop, his assertion of Condé’s offer to Cromwell to turn Protestant, [280].
• Bussy-Rabutin, Count de, value of his satire of Madame de Longueville, [265].

• Campion, Alexandre de, his mission to Madame de Chevreuse, [28];
  • his censure of Madame de Montbazon’s conduct, [80].
• Campion, Henri de, attributes the conception of the plot to destroy Mazarin to Madame de Chevreuse in concert with Madame de Montbazon, [89];
  • he stipulates with Beaufort that he should not strike Mazarin, [92];
  • sought for by Mazarin, he takes refuge at Anet, and afterwards at Rome, [97].
• Cantecroix, Beatrice de Cusance, Princess de, Charles, Duke de Lorraine madly enamoured of, [147].
• Caumartin, Madame de, a portrait of Madame de Chevreuse sketched by De Retz to please the malignant curiosity of, [21].
• Châteauneuf, Charles de l’Aubépine, Marquis de, released from an imprisonment of ten years, [34];
  • why detested by the Princess de Condé, [40];
  • restored to office through Madame de Chevreuse, [57];
  • banished to Touraine, [106];
  • bides his time for displacing Mazarin, and holds the seals on the Cardinal going into exile, [107];
  • deprived of them by the Queen, [230];
  • restored to office to serve Mazarin in secret, [257];
  • nobly inaugurates his ministry by marching with the Queen and young King into Berri, [263];
  • Mazarin learns with inquietude his ever-increasing success, [278];
  • again displaced by Mazarin, [279].
• Châtillon, Isabelle Angelique de Montmorency, Duchess de (sister of the illustrious Marshal de Luxembourg), the Great Condé’s passion for her, [259];
  • she urges Condé to an understanding with the Court, [259];
  • manages her lofty lover with infinite tact, [259];
  • is deeply enamoured of the young Duke de Nemours, [259];
  • invested with full powers as an ambassadress by Condé, [291];
  • her desire to triumph over Condé’s heart, [291];
  • her antecedents and character, [292];
  • the important consequences of her liaison with Condé, [292];
  • a portrait of her at twenty-five described, [293];
  • causes of her quarrel with Madame de Longueville, [294];
  • she exacts from Nemours the public and outrageous sacrifice of her rival, [296];
  • attempts to ruin Madame de Longueville in Condé’s estimation, [296];
  • her embarrassment between an imperious Prince and a jealous lover, [298].
• Chavigny, Count de, his career, [231].
• Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan, Duchess de, her illustrious lineage, [17];
  • marries, first, Charles de Luynes, and afterwards Claude de Chevreuse, [17];
  • as great favourite of Anne of Austria her extensive influence over the politics of Europe, [18];
  • her personal characteristics, [18];
  • summary of her character by Cardinal de Retz, [19];
  • cause of her failure as a great politician, [20];
  • her adventures in exile, [22];
  • her great ascendancy over the cabinet of Madrid, [22];
  • seeks refuge in England, [22];
  • Richelieu’s designs to effect her destruction, [23];
  • acts as the connecting link between England, Spain and Lorraine during the Civil War in England, [24];
  • negotiates with Olivarez for the destruction of Richelieu, [26];
  • was she a stranger to the conspiracy of 1642? [26];
  • abandoned by the Queen on its discovery, [30];
  • her frightful position, [31];
  • her perpetual exile decreed by the will of Louis XIII., [32];
  • is dreaded by Mazarin, [33];
  • her triumphant return to Court, [34];
  • her position and political influence, [36];
  • the new relations between her and the Queen, [39];
  • she attacks Richelieu’s system as adopted by Mazarin, [48];
  • procures the return of Châteauneuf to office, [49];
  • pleads for the Vendôme princes, [50];
  • manœuvres to secure the governorship of Havre for La Rochefoucauld, [53];
  • the skill, sagacity, and address of her counter-intrigues, [55];
  • tries the power of her charms on Mazarin, [55];
  • devotes her whole existence to political intrigue and conspiracy, [56];
  • want of precaution in her attacks upon Mazarin, [58];
  • her curious struggle for supremacy with the Prime Minister, [58];
  • the head and mainspring of the Importants, [58];
  • her tactics to displace Mazarin in favour of Châteauneuf, [59];
  • she organises a coup-de-main to destroy Mazarin, [62];
  • arranges with the Cardinal the composition of Madame de Montbazon’s apology, [74];
  • her politic purpose of a fête to the Queen foiled by the insane pride of Madame de Montbazon, [76];
  • her efforts to deprive Mazarin of supporters, [80];
  • her share in Beaufort’s plot, [82];
  • Madame de Montbazon only an instrument in her hands, [89];
  • her behaviour on the failure of the plot, [106];
  • recommended by the Queen to withdraw from Court, [107];
  • carries on a vast correspondence under the mantle of the English embassy with Lord Goring, Croft, Vendôme, and Bouillon, and the rest of the Malcontents, [109];
  • her irritation at being prohibited from visiting the Queen of England, [143];
  • Mazarin watches her every movement, [144];
  • ordered to retire to Angoulême, she goes for a third time into exile, [144];
  • her bark is captured by the English Parliamentarians and she is carried into the Isle of Wight, [146];
  • Mazarin has Montresor arrested in hopes of possessing himself of her costly jewels, [146];
  • applies herself to maintain an alliance between Spain, Austria and Lorraine—the last basis of her own political reputation, [147];
  • preserves her sway over the Duke de Lorraine, [148];
  • frustrates Mazarin’s projects to win over the Duke, [148];
  • becomes once more the soul of every intrigue planned against the government, [148];
  • constitutes herself the mediatress between the Queen and the Frondeurs, [206];
  • partially restored to the Queen’s confidence, [210];
  • assisted in her political intrigues by the Marquis de Laigues, [210];
  • a splendid supper given to her by Madame de Sevigné, [211];
  • forms a plan with the Princess Palatine of a grand aristocratic league against Mazarin, [224];
  • the Fronde in 1651 was Madame de Chevreuse, [225];
  • she procures Condé’s release from prison, [225];
  • her resentment at the rupture of her daughter’s marriage, [232];
  • she raises the entire Fronde against Condé, [242];
  • opposes the schemes to assassinate Condé, [243];
  • Châteauneuf, her friend and instrument, is made Prime Minister, [257];
  • remains staunch to the Queen and Mazarin through the last Fronde, [280].
• Chevreuse, Charlotte Marie de Lorraine, Mademoiselle de, her projected marriage with the Prince de Conti, [224];
  • supreme importance of such marriage, [225];
  • disastrous results of its rupture, [232];
  • impetuously proposes to turn the key upon Condé, Conti and Beaufort at the Palais d’Orleans, [233];
  • her suspected and almost public liaison with De Retz, [249];
  • dies suddenly of a fever, unmarried, [224].
• Cinq Mars, Henri de, undermines Richelieu with Louis XIII., [25];
  • his death-warrant, [29].
• Coligny, Count Maurice de (grandson of the famous Admiral de Coligny), an adorer of Madame de Longueville, [14];
  • the dropped letters falsely attributed to him, [71];
  • as champion of Madame de Longueville, he challenges the Duke de Guise, [113];
  • fatal result of the duel, [117];
  • dies of his wounds and of despair, [117];
  • scandalous verses on the occasion, [118].
• Coetquen, Marquis de, hospitably receives Madame de Chevreuse when exiled, [146].
• Condé, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de, arbiter of the political situation after Rocroy, [80];
  • his furious anger at Madame de Montbazon’s insult to his sister, [111];
  • hailed by the Queen as the liberator of France, [111];
  • receives into his house Coligny wounded in duel with Guise, [116];
  • the state in which he found Paris after his victory of Lens: he offers his sword to the Queen, [154];
  • applies himself to giving the new Importants a harsh lesson, [155];
  • marches upon Paris and places it under siege, [156];
  • the climax of his fame and fortune as defender and saviour of the throne, [164];
  • he tyrannises over the Court and government, [168];
  • he insults Mazarin and embarrasses the Queen, [169];
  • his want of capacity for business, [172];
  • his train of petits-maîtres, [172];
  • on the murder of one of his servants he tries to crush the Fronde leaders, [173];
  • forces the young Duke de Richelieu to marry clandestinely Mademoiselle de Pons, [174];
  • wounds the Queen’s pride by compelling her to receive Jarzé whom she had banished for fatuously believing that she had loved him, [175];
  • arrested on the authority of his own signature and imprisoned at Vincennes, [177];
  • what constituted the strength of the Princes’ party in the Second Fronde, [188];
  • the majority of the women who meddled with politics were, through sympathy, of his party, [203];
  • his aged mother supplicates in vain for his release, and returns home to die, [204];
  • his liberation effected by no other power than that of female influence, [206];
  • he treats Mazarin with contempt at Havre, and on his release becomes master of the situation, [215];
  • is courted by both the Fronde and Queen’s party, [215];
  • eight hundred princes and nobles partisans of Condé, [217];
  • his sole error not having a fixed and unalterable object, [230];
  • applies himself to form a new Fronde, [234];
  • resumes the imperious tone which had previously embroiled him with the Queen and Mazarin, [237];
  • Hocquincourt proposes to assassinate Condé, [243];
  • he retreats to St. Maur and holds a Court there, [245];
  • reappears in Parliament, [245];
  • Châteauneuf and Mazarin labour to destroy him, [257];
  • he narrowly escapes an ambuscade at Pontoise, [258];
  • motives which rendered him averse to civil war, [259];
  • his final determination to unsheath the sword, [260];
  • raises the standard of revolt in Guienne, [262];
  • his adventurous expedition, [275];
  • to what did Condé aspire? [277];
  • his inconstancy—offers himself to Cromwell and to become Protestant to have an English army, [278]-[280];
  • the income and possessions of his family, [278];
  • he escapes for the tenth time being taken and slain, [282];
  • takes command of the Fronde forces and throws himself upon the royal army, [283];
  • routs Hocquincourt and attacks Turenne unsuccessfully, [285];
  • unjust accusation of Napoleon I. that Condé wanted boldness at Bleneau, [286];
  • he leaves the army and hastens to Paris, [287];
  • in abandoning the Loire he commits an immense and irreparable error, [289];
  • invests Madame de Châtillon with full powers as an ambassadress, [291];
  • imbued by her with a design for peace by means the most agreeable, [291];
  • a graceful memento of her power over him still existing in the ancient Château of the Colignys, [293];
  • Madame de Châtillon and Madame de Longueville dispute for Condé’s heart, [294];
  • the overthrow of Mazarin a necessary condition of the domination of Condé, [296];
  • is advised by his sister to rely upon his sword alone, [297].
• Condé, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, Princess de Bourbon (mother of the Great Condé and Madame de Longueville), her influence with Anne of Austria, [39];
  • her detestation of Madame de Chevreuse, [40];
  • tries to destroy her hold upon the Queen, [40];
  • her lively resentment at the insult to her daughter in the affair of the dropped letters, [73];
  • demands a public reparation from Madame de Montbazon, [74];
  • her demeanour during the “mummeries” of the apology, [74];
  • obtains the privilege of never associating with Madame de Montbazon, [75];
  • supplicates in vain for Condé’s release, and returns home to die, [204].
• Condé, Claire Clemence de Maillé, Princess de Bourbon (daughter of the Duke de Brézé, and wife of the Great Condé), shut up in Bordeaux with the Dukes de Bouillon and de Rochefoucauld during “the Women’s War,” [200], [204];
  • only maintains herself in Bordeaux through the aid of the rabble va-nu-pieds, [205];
  • forced to take refuge hastily in the citadel of Montrond, [263].
• Conti, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de (brother of the Great Condé), his extravagant adoration of his sister, Madame de Longueville, [141];
  • marries Anne Marie Martinozzi, niece of Mazarin, [142];
  • declared generalissimo of the army of the king, [159];
  • the problem as to who was the author of the rupture of his marriage with Madame de Chevreuse, [227];
  • his ardent passion for her, [231];
  • is made lieutenant-general in Guienne by Condé, [276];
  • finishes, where he begun life, with theology, [142].
• Corneille, Pierre, his Emilie painted as a perfect heroine, [82].

• Fiesque, Gillona d’Harcourt, Countess de, [195].
• Fouquerolles, Madame de, her terrible anxiety lest she should be compromised by the dropped letters, [73];
  • confides the secret to La Rochefoucauld, [73];
  • the letters are burnt in the Queen’s presence, [73].
• Fronde, the, what gave it birth and sustained it, [149];
  • Day of the Barricades, [153];
  • the royal power attacked by three parties simultaneously, [153];
  • the adherents of the Fronde, [156];
  • initiation of the Civil War, [159];
  • sordid selfishness of the Frondeurs, [161];
  • carries everything before it in 1651, [223];
  • brief retrospect of the two Fronde wars, [267];
  • one of the most interesting as well as diverting periods in French history, [269];
  • contrast between its main features and the contemporary civil war in England, [270];
  • the wide-spread misery it entailed on France, [270].

• Guise, Henri, Duke de Guise (grandson of the Balafré), espouses the cause of Madame de Montbazon in the affair of the dropped letters, [73];
  • confronts and defies the victorious Condés, [112];
  • fights a duel with Coligny, the champion of Madame de Longueville, [115];
  • his insulting words on unsheathing his sword, [115];
  • result of the duel on party feeling in France, [117];
  • his liaison with Anne de Gonzagua, [193];
  • becomes unfaithful to her and elopes with the Countess de Bossuet, [194].
• Guyméné, Anne de Rohan, Princess de (sister-in-law of Madame de Chevreuse, and daughter-in-law of Madame Montbazon), her numerous crowd of old and young adorers, [37];
  • her flirtation with Mazarin, [56];
  • furious at having been abandoned by De Retz, offers the Queen to get him confined in a cellar, [209].

• Hacqueville, Monsieur de, refuses to be a go-between of De Retz and Madame de Chevreuse, [211].
• Hautefort, Marie de (afterwards Duchess de Schomberg), influence of her piety and virtue, [37];
  • witnesses the arrest of Beaufort, [105].
• Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I. of England, her warm reception of Madame de Chevreuse, [22];
  • seeks an Asylum in France from the Parliamentarians, [143];
  • asserted to have secretly married her equerry, Jermyn, [202].
• Hocquincourt, Charles de Monchy, Marshal d’, proclaims Madame de Montbazon “la belle des belles,“ [70];
  • is beaten by Condé at Bleneau, [284].
• Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, his political correspondence with Madame de Chevreuse, [19];
  • encourages the faction of Vendôme, Vieuville, and La Valette, [23].

• Importants, the—Rochefoucauld’s account of that faction, [77];
  • irritated by the banishment of their fascinating lady-leader, Madame de Montbazon, they plot to murder Mazarin, [78];
  • their ruin decided upon by the Queen and Mazarin, [79];
  • their error in not conciliating Madame de Longueville, [79];
  • was the plot real or imaginary—a point of the highest historical importance, [83];
  • failure of the plot and ruin of the faction, [104].

• Joinville, Prince de (son of Charles de Lorraine), suitor for the hand of Anne de Bourbon, [12].

• Laigues, Marquis de, declares himself a lover of Madame de Chevreuse to gain political importance, [210].
• Longueville, Duchess de, see Anne de Bourbon.
• Longueville, Marie d’Orleans, see Duchess de Nemours.
• Longueville, Henry de Bourbon, Duke de, marries Anne de Bourbon, [13];
  • titular lover of Madame de Montbazon, [70];
  • plenipotentiary at the Congress of Munster in 1645, [132];
  • gives up the Duchess as a hostage to the Fronde, [159];
  • raises Normandy against Mazarin, [158];
  • he imperatively commands the Duchess to join him in Normandy, [253].
• Loret, his rhyming description of the supper given by Madame de Sevigné to Madame to Chevreuse, [212].
• Lorraine, Charles IV., Duke of, involved in the conspiracy of Soissons through Madame de Chevreuse, [26];
  • prefers amusing himself with civil war to the quiet enjoyment of his throne, [271].
• Louis the Just (XIII. of France), signs the death warrant of his favourite, Cinq Mars, [29];
  • his decree of exile against Madame de Chevreuse, [33].
• Louis XIV., his majority declared, [256].
• Luynes, Charles de, Favourite of Louis XIII., marries Marie de Rohan (afterwards Duchess de Chevreuse), [17]
• Luynes, the (late) Duke de, aided the Pope against the Garibaldians, [18].

• Maulevrier, the Marquis de, writer of the dropped letters addressed to Madame de Fouquerolles, [13].
• Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal, succeeds Richelieu as Prime Minister, [32];
  • his origin, [44];
  • is hated by the nobles, parliament, and middle classes, [44];
  • installed in office, [45];
  • his first service to Anne of Austria, [45];
  • his striking personal resemblance to Buckingham, [46];
  • how he obtained entire sway over the Queen-Regent, [47];
  • applies himself to gain her heart, [47];
  • finds a formidable opponent to his policy in Madame de Chevreuse, [48], [54];
  • is terrified by her matrimonial projects, [54];
  • flirts with Madame de Chevreuse, [55];
  • his attentions to Madame de Guyméné, [56];
  • his difficulty to make the Queen comprehend his policy towards Spain, [60];
  • declares that Madame de Chevreuse would ruin France, [61];
  • forewarned of a conspiracy to destroy him, [62];
  • the great families opposed to him, [63];
  • his anxieties and perplexities, [64];
  • the relations between him and the Queen, [64];
  • his intervention in the quarrel of the rival Duchesses, [74];
  • his resolution in confronting the plot of the Importants, [79];
  • did Mazarin owe all his great career to a falsehood cunningly invented and audaciously sustained? [83];
  • the plan of the attack upon him, [92];
  • escapes assassination from Beaufort’s nocturnal ambuscade, [99];
  • compels the Queen to choose her part by addressing himself to her heart, [102];
  • becomes absolute master of the Queen’s heart, [102];
  • banishes the conspirators and arrests Beaufort, [106];
  • his tactics and political sagacity, [111];
  • first introduces Italian Opera at the French Court, [135];
  • concludes a peace with the Fronde parliament, [161];
  • insulted by Condé, [169];
  • what constitutes the strength of his party in the Second Fronde, [187];
  • goes into Guienne with the royal army, [205];
  • banished by the Fronde, [215];
  • treated with contempt by Condé at Havre, [215];
  • with difficulty finds a refuge at Bruhl, [216];
  • in his exile governs the Queen as absolutely as ever, [217];
  • his immense blunder (in 1650), [225];
  • rebanished and his possessions confiscated, [234];
  • governs France from Bruhl, [236];
  • foments quarrels between Condé and the Fronde, [236];
  • composes with the Queen a political comedy of which De Retz became the dupe and Condé very nearly the victim, [238];
  • the draught of his treaty with the Fronde, the masterpiece of his political skill, falls into Condé’s hands, [256];
  • alarmed at the success of Châteauneuf, he breaks his ban, and returns to France, [279];
  • Condé and the Fronde united against him, [280];
  • to gain supporters lavishly promises place and money, [290].
• Medici, Marie de (Queen of Henry IV. and mother of Louis XIII.), her imprisonment of Charlotte de Montmorency, [2];
  • conspires against Richelieu, [28].
• Miossens, Count de (afterwards Marshal d’Albret), tries unsuccessfully to win the heart of Madame de Longueville, [122];
  • gives place to La Rochefoucauld, [130].
• Montagu, Lord, the intimate adviser of Queen Henrietta Maria, and slave of Madame de Chevreuse, [24];
  • Anne of Austria’s confidence in him, [37];
  • his mission to Madame de Chevreuse, [38];
  • becomes a bigot and a devotee, [38].
• Montbazon, Hercule de Rohan, Duke de (father of Madame de Chevreuse and the Prince de Guyméné), marries at sixty-one Marie d’Avangour aged sixteen, [67];
  • recommends the example of Marie de Medici to his young wife and takes her to Court, [67].
• Montbazon, Marie d’Avangour, Duchess de, called by d’Hocquincourt “la belle des belles,” the youthful stepmother of Madame de Chevreuse, her parentage and antecedents, [67];
  • married at sixteen to a husband of sixty-one, [67];
  • her personal and mental characteristics, [68];
  • contrast in manners between her and Madame de Longueville, [69];
  • her numerous adorers; the Duke de Beaufort her titular lover, [70];
  • her malignant hatred of Madame de Longueville, [71];
  • employs her influence over the houses of Vendôme and Lorraine to the injury of her rival, [71];
  • the affair of the dropped letters, [71];
  • the party of the Importants espouse her cause, [73];
  • she is compelled to make a public apology before the Queen and Court, [74];
  • the pretended reconciliation only a fresh declaration of war, [75];
  • her conduct at the collation given the Queen by Madame de Chevreuse, [76];
  • is banished by the King’s order, [76];
  • she inveigles Beaufort into a plot to destroy Mazarin, [89].
• Montespan, Françoise-Athenais de Rochechouart Mortemart, Duchess de, her fame as a beauty, [9];
  • relations to her of the Dukes de Longueville and Beaufort, [14].
• Montpensier, Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans (known as La Grande Mademoiselle), daughter of Gaston, Duke d’Orleans and cousin of Louis XIV., preserves the text of the dropped letters, [72];
  • gives the two speeches made on the occasion of Madame de Montbazon’s reparation, [74].
• Motteville, Frances Bertaut, Madame de, her amusing recital of the “mummeries” in the affair of the dropped letters, [74];
  • her account of the Queen’s reception of the news of the abortive attempt to kill Mazarin, [103];
  • her portrait of Madame de Longueville, [135];
  • the principal motive which urged La Rochefoucauld to woo the Duchess, [140].

• Nemours, Marie d’Orleans, Duchess de (daughter of Henri, Duke de Longueville), her harsh censure of the pride and impracticability of the Condés, [165];
  • quits Madame de Longueville to take refuge in a convent, [180];
  • moves heaven and earth for the release of Condé that he might keep watch over the Duchess de Châtillon, [208];
  • her character, [212];
  • the enemy of the Fronde and the Condés, [227];
  • her detestation of Madame de Longueville, [252].
• Nemours, Charles Amadeus, of Savoy, Duke de, prompted by the Duchess de Châtillon, his mistress, embraces the cause of Condé, [208];
  • pays court to Madame de Longueville instead of making active war in Berri, [262];
  • the obscure relations between them at this juncture, drives La Rochefoucauld to a violent rupture with Madame de Longueville, [264].

• Orleans, Gaston, Duke d’ (brother of Louis XIII.), conspires against Richelieu, [25];
  • his incapacity to govern, [171];
  • his jealousy of the influence of Condé and of Mazarin, [171];
  • makes De Retz his confidant, who obtains his assent to the arrest of the Princes, [176];
  • becomes the head of a fifth party in the Second Fronde, [200];
  • consents to the liberation of the Princes on promise that his daughter should marry Condé’s son, [207];
  • governed by De Retz and Madame de Chevreuse, [258].

• Petits-Maîtres, the train of Condé called, their character, [288].
• Palatine, Anne de Gonzagua, Princess (widow of Edward Prince Palatine), peculiarities of her epistolary style, [124];
  • her large intelligence, solidity, refinement and ingenuity of thought, [124];
  • becomes the head and mainspring of the Princes’ party, or Second Fronde, [179];
  • the formidable political opponent of Mazarin, [179];
  • her extraordinary political and diplomatical ability, [189];
  • her antecedents, [190];
  • her liaison with Henri de Guise under a promise of marriage, [193];
  • disguised in male attire she joins her lover at Besançon, [193];
  • abandoned by the volatile de Guise, who elopes with the Countess de Bossuet, she returns to Paris, [194];
  • is married to Prince Edward, Count Palatine of the Rhine, [194];
  • by her conciliatory tact she obtains the esteem of all parties in the Fronde, [196];
  • De Retz’s eulogium and Madame de Motteville’s opinion of her, [196];
  • she operates on behalf of the imprisoned Princes, and negotiates four different treaties for their deliverance, [198];
  • an alliance with the two camps concluded by her with De Retz, [224];
  • she conducts with consummate skill the negotiation between Madame de Chevreuse and Madame de Longueville, [227].
• Phalzbourg, Princess de (sister of Charles IV. of Lorraine), acts as a spy over Madame de Chevreuse in the interest of Mazarin, [147].
• Political Intrigue, an affair of fashion among the ladies of Anne of Austria’s Court, [56].

• Rambouillet, Hotel de, [9].
• Retz, John Francis Paul Gondi, Cardinal de, the evil genius of the Fronde, [151];
  • his influence over the Parisians as Coadjutor, [151];
  • his character—ladies of gallantry his chief political agents, [152];
  • his conspicuous merits and faults, [172];
  • his master-stroke of address, [201];
  • his best concerted measures abortive through his inclination for the fair sex, [208];
  • fails to acquire the confidence of anyone—is threatened with assassination, [209];
  • lends an ear to Cromwell and contracts a close friendship with Montrose, [209];
  • has the same interests with Madame de Chevreuse in securing the union of her daughter with Conti, [210];
  • an analysis of his character, antecedents, and aspirations, [293];
  • admitted unwillingly into the secret councils of the Queen, [240];
  • his midnight interview with Anne of Austria, [241];
  • holds the key of Paris, [275];
  • he trims and follows the Duke d’Orleans, [280].
• Richelieu, Cardinal de, his government through terror, [24];
  • conspiracy to destroy him, [26]-[30];
  • result of his efforts to consolidate the regal power, [32].
• Richelieu, Duke de, engaged to Mademoiselle de Chevreuse, but forced by Condé to marry clandestinely when under age, Mademoiselle de Pons, [174].
• Rochefoucauld, Francis, second Duke de la—his career as Prince de Marsillac, [127];
  • his character of the Duchess de Longueville, [10];
  • his advice to Madame de Chevreuse, [39];
  • Madame de Fouquerolles confides to him the secret of the dropped letters, [73];
  • he delivers her and her lover from their terrible anxiety, [73];
  • seeks to hush up and terminate the quarrel of the rival Duchesses, [80];
  • constitutes himself the champion of Madame de Chevreuse’s innocence of Beaufort’s plot, [83];
  • allies himself with that illustrious political adventuress, [128];
  • desirous of securing to his party the master-mind of Condé to avenge himself of the Queen and Mazarin, [128];
  • makes persistent love to Madame de Longueville and wins her heart, [129];
  • his cynical maxim on the love of certain women, [129];
  • his personal and mental characteristics, [137];
  • the way in which he superseded Miossens as the lover of Madame de Longueville, [139];
  • his sordid motive as her wooer, [140];
  • his restless spirit and ever discontented vanity, [167];
  • effects the escape from Paris of Madame de Longueville, [178];
  • gives proof of a rare fidelity through the whole of “the Women’s War,” [183];
  • his ancestral château of Verteuil razed to the ground by Mazarin’s orders, [183];
  • his conduct at this time contradicts the assertion that he never loved the woman he seduced and dragged into the vortex of politics, [184];
  • his version of the true cause of the rupture of the marriage between Mademoiselle de Chevreuse and Conti, [229]:
  • grows weary of a wandering and adventurous life, [255];
  • the report of certain obscure relations existing between Nemours and Madame de Longueville drives him to a violent rupture with the Duchess, [264];
  • his accusation more absurd than odious, [264];
  • to indulge his revenge against Madame de Longueville, he enters into all Madame de Châtillon’s designs, [295];
  • directs her how to manage Condé and Nemours both at once, [298].

• Scudery, Mademoiselle de, and the prudes of the Hotel de Rambouillet protest strongly against the marriage of Conti with Mademoiselle de Chevreuse, [249].
• Seguier, Pierre, Keeper of the Seals, his character, [49].
• Sevigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de, gives a splendid supper to the Duchess de Chevreuse, [211].
• Soissons, Count de, his conspiracy to destroy Cardinal de Richelieu, [25].
• St. Maure, Countess of, the polish and precision of her epistolary style, [123].

• Tavannes, Count de, a valiant petit-maître to whom Condé gives command of the army after Bleneau, [257].
• Turenne, Marshal de, raises the standard of revolt in behalf of the Fronde, [156];
  • is won over to make a treaty with Spain by Madame de Longueville, [182];
  • thanked by the Queen after Bleneau, for having placed the crown a second time on her son’s head, [287];
  • achieves the importance of being a rival of Condé, [289];
  • attacks the enemy’s camp when half the officers of Condé’s army were at Madame de Montbazon’s fête, [290].

• Vigean, Mademoiselle de, Condé’s love for, [292].
• Vendôme, Duke Cæsar de, the faction of, with La Vieuville and La Valette, when emigrants in England, [23];
  • his pretensions and agitated life, [51];
  • decides to exile himself in Italy and await the fall of Mazarin, [106].
• Vitry, Marshal de, prepares with Count de Cramail a coup-de-main against Richelieu, [25].

END OF VOL. I.

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