Страница - 63 Страница - 65 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] .