Страница - 72 Страница - 74 Barrillon (the French ambassador), brings about the signature of the treaty of Niméguen by the help of the Duchess of Portsmouth, [113] ;carries the message of the dying king’s (Charles) mistress to the Duke of York, [117] . Beaufort, Francis de Vendôme, Duke de, commands the troops of Gaston and weakens the army by his dissensions with Nemours, his brother-in-law, [3] ;kills Nemours in a duel, [14] ; satisfied at seeing Madame de Montbazon satisfied, he retires to Anet, [21] ; submits to the royal authority and obtains command of the fleet, [67] ; commands the French men-of-war against England and Holland, [67] ; goes to the aid of the Venetians against the Turks in Candia, and is cut to pieces in a sortie, [67] ; he carries with him to Candia, disguised as a page, Louise Quérouaille, [95] . Berwick, Duke of (natural son of James II.), does justice to Orry, [177] ;commands the French corps in Spain, [179] ; commands an Anglo-Portuguese army in Estramadura, [197] ; his hatred pursues Louis XIV. on every field of battle, [197] ; completely defeats the allies near Almanza, [252] . Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, his remark to Voltaire concerning Marlborough, [212] ;his career, character, and abilities, [220] ; possessed the talents and vices which have immortalised as well as disgraced Mirabeau, [221] . Bouillon, Duke de, advises an immediate attack on Condé at the Faubourg St. Antoine, [8] ;a first-class politician, but with only one thought—the aggrandisement of his house, [22] ; a glance at his antecedents, [22] ; obtains the title of Prince, [23] ; is cut short in his ambitious career by death, [24] . Boulay, Marquis de la, prevented from crossing swords with his rival, de Choisy, by Madame de Châtillon seizing a hand of each, [5] . Buckingham, George Villiers, second Duke of, sent to Paris to inquire into the sudden death of Henrietta of England, [107] ;he persuades Louise de Quérouaille to transfer herself to the service of the Queen of England, [108] ; seeks to turn her to his own advantage by raising up a rival to the Duchess of Cleveland in the king’s affections, [108] ; offers to escort her to England, but forgets both the lady and his promise, and leaves her at Dieppe, [109] . Bussy-Rabutin, Count de, his account of a scene in public between Charles II. and the Duchess of Portsmouth, [113] . Cambiac, Abbé, enamoured of the Duchess de Châtillon, [4] ;
retires on finding Condé is his rival, [5] . Capres, Bournonville, Baron de, negotiates with the Dutch touching the principality for Madame des Ursins, [281] ;liberally rewarded by Philip V., [281] . Carignan, Princess de, her projects for governing her niece the Queen of Spain, [155] . Charles II. of England, the unbounded power over his mind possessed by his sister Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, [97] ;falls into the snare laid for him by Louis XIV., and is captivated by Louise Quérouaille, [99] ; the secret negotiation initiated at Dover by the Duchess, [99] ; the key to his will found in La Quérouaille, [100] ; the main features of the secret negotiation, [101] ; he is rendered doubly a traitor by his abandonment of the latter condition, [101] ; indignantly refuses to receive the Duke d’Orleans’ letter acquainting him with his sister’s death, [106] ; he pretends to believe the explanations offered him, [106] ; sends Buckingham to Paris ostensibly to inquire into the catastrophe, but in reality to conclude the treaty, [108] ; France gives three million of livres for Charles’s conversion to Popery, and three for the Dutch war, [108] ; creates Louise Quérouaille Duchess of Portsmouth , [110] ; creates his son by her Duke of Richmond, [111] ; Madame de Sévigne’s amusing account of Charles’s duplicate amours, [111] ; his fatal seizure, [115] ; declares his wish to be admitted into the Church of Rome, [117] ; receives the offices of Father Huddlestone, [118] ; in his last moments commends the Duchess of Portsmouth to the care of his brother James, [118] ; the alleged poisoning of Charles II., [119] . Charles II., King of Spain, secretly consults Pope Innocent XII. on the succession, [128] ;declares Philip d’Anjou absolute heir to his crown, [129] ; consults the mortal remains of his father, mother, and wife upon the sacred obligations of the will, and dies, [129] . Châtillon, Isabelle Angelique de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duchess de, visits Nemours when wounded under various disguises, [4] ;Condé not the only rival Nemours had to contend with, [4] ; her condescension towards Cambiac, an intriguing, licentious priest, [4] ; procures her an enormous legacy from the Princess-Dowager de Condé, [4] ; Vineuil makes himself very agreeable to her, [5] ; meeting her after the combat of St. Antoine, Condé shows by his countenance how much he despises her, [12] ; is unable longer to counterbalance the counsels and influence of Madame de Chevreuse, [14] ; her shameful league with La Rochefoucauld against Madame de Longueville, [38] . Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan, Duchess de. She ultimately becomes resigned to Mazarin, [19] ;warmly welcomes the return of the cardinal, [20] ; summary of her political career, [49] ; her elevated position side by side with Richelieu and Mazarin, [49] ; her “marriage of conscience” with the Marquis de Laigues, [50] ; marries her grandson, the Duke de Chevreuse, to Colbert’s daughter, [52] ; survives all whom she had either loved or hated, [52] ; dies in obscurity at Gagny, [53] . Choisy, Count de, enamoured of Madame de Châtillon, is bent on fighting a duel about her with the Marquis de la Boulay, [5] . Churchill, Arabella, mistress of the Duke of York, obtains her brother John (afterwards Duke of Marlborough) a pair of colours in the Guards, [208] . Cleveland, Barbara Palmer, Duchess of, violently enamoured of the handsome John Churchill, [209] ;presents him with 5000l. for his daring escape from the window of her apartment, [209] ; Buckingham raises up a rival to her in the King’s affections in Louise Quérouaille, [108] . Condé, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de, his small success in pleasing the fair sex, [4] ;almost always badly dressed, [4] ; his party very sensibly weakened by rivalries and gallant intrigues among the political heroines, [5] ; fixes his head-quarters at St. Cloud, [6] ; is distracted by different passions and feelings, [6] ; betrayed on all sides amidst a series of impotent intrigues, [7] ; his error in having preferred the counsels of his fickle mistress, Madame de Châtillon, to those of his courageous and devoted sister, [7] ; his talent and courage in the struggle at the Faubourg St. Antoine, [8] ; is saved from perishing by the noble conduct of Madame de Montpensier, [10] ; his sore distress at the loss of his slain friends, [11] ; his mind disabused with regard to Madame de Châtillon, he shows by his countenance how much he despises her, [12] ; proposes such hard conditions to the Royalists that all accord with him becomes impossible, [13] ; he retires to the Netherlands, and becomes generalissimo of the Spanish armies, [13] ; is declared guilty of high treason and a traitor to the State, [14] ; plunges deeper than ever into the Spanish alliance and the war against France, [14] ; restored to his honours and power, the Princess de Condé becomes once more the despised, alienated, humiliated wife, [86] ; he keeps her imprisoned until his death, and recommended that she should be kept so after his decease, [88] . Condé, Claire Clémence Maillé de Brézé, Princess de (wife of the Great Condé), married at thirteen to the Duke d’Enghien, who yielded only to compulsion, [80] ;the unenviable light in which she was held by her husband and relatives, [80] ; a fair estimate of her qualities, [81] ; her fidelity to her husband during adversity, [81] ; her zeal during the Woman’s War, [81] ; her truly deplorable existence from earliest childhood, [82] ; her hour of fame and distinction, [83] ; her letters to the Queen and Ministers stamped with nobility and firmness, [83] ; she escapes from Chantilly on foot with her son and reaches Montrond, [83] ; she escapes from Montrond under cover of a hunting party, [83] ; escorted to Bordeaux by the Dukes de Bouillon and de la Rochefoucauld, [84] ; becomes an amazon and almost a heroine in the insurrection at Bordeaux, [84] ; scene in the Parliament chamber, [84] ; her particular talent for speaking in public, [84] ; works with her own hands at the fortifications of the city, [85] ; all the conditions by the Princess, save one, conceded, [85] ; Condé’s remark that “whilst he was watering tulips, his wife was making war in the south,” [85] ; her rapturous reception of a tender note from Condé, [85] ; she again becomes the despised and humiliated wife, [86] ; a tragic event adds itself to the train of her tribulations, outrages, and troubles, [87] ; imprisoned by the Prince at Châteauroux until his death, [88] ; Bossuet in his panegyric of the hero gives not one word of praise to the ill-fated Princess, [89] . Conti, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de, weakens the party of the Princes by his dissensions with his sister, Madame de Longueville, [3] . Dartmouth, Lord, his version of the affair of the gold keys, [244] . Estrées, Cardinal d’, directs the ultra-French political system at Madrid, [169] ;a formidable adversary of Madame des Ursins, [172] ; her tool, without knowing it, [173] ; he demands his recall in accents of rage and despair, [175] . Estrées, the Abbé d’, is laughed at and despised by Madame des Ursins, [176] ;his letter to Louis XIV. scandalising her intercepted by her, [176] ; the letter of Louis XIV. recalling him, [180] . Farnese, Elizabeth, Princess of Parma, afterwards second consort of Philip V. of Spain, her lineage and true character, [294] ;chosen by Madame des Ursins as consort of Philip V., [289] ;
her outrageous dismissal of the camerara-mayor , [292] ; her character as sketched by Frederick the Great, [294] . Ferté-Senneterre, Marshal de la, brings powerful reinforcements to the royal army from Lorraine, [7] . Fiesque and Frontenac, the Countesses, the adjutant-generals of Madame de Montpensier in “the Women’s War,” [69] . Force, Duke de la (father-in-law of Turenne), made Marshal of France, [24] . Fronde, the army of the, discouraged and divided (July, 1652); the fight at the Faubourg St. Antoine an act of despair, [7] ;the defeat of Condé destroys the Fronde, [11] ; approaching its last agony, it treats with Mazarin for an amnesty, [13] ; contrasted with the Great Rebellion in England, [29] ; the revolt of the Fronde belonged especially to high-born Frenchwomen, [35] . Gwynne, Nell, her rivalry of the Duchess of Portsmouth, [111] ;difference in character of their respective triumphs, [112] . Guise, Henri, Duke de, rallies to Mazarin after the Fronde, [28] ;his violent passion for Mdlle. de Pons, [59] ; elected by the Neapolitans their leader after Masaniello, [59] ; defeats the Spanish troops and becomes master of the country, [59] ; is betrayed through his gallantries and carried prisoner to Madrid, [60] ; attempts to reconquer Naples but fails, [60] ; is appointed Grand Chamberlain of France, [60] ; his duels, his romantic amours, his profusion, and the varied adventures of his life, [60] . Hallam, Henry (the historian), his remarks: “that the fortunes of Europe would have been changed by nothing more noble than the insolence of one waiting-woman and the cunning of another,” [246] ;that “the House of Bourbon would probably not have reigned beyond the Pyrenees but for Sarah and Abigail at Queen Anne’s toilette,” [246] . Harcourt, Duke d’, intercedes for the exiled Princess des Ursins, [185] . Harley (afterwards Earl of Oxford), his talents and character, [219] ;uses his relation, the bed-chamber woman, as a political tool, [222] ; his plan to overthrow the Whigs by degrees, [233] . Leganez, Marquis de, conspires in favour of the Archduke Charles, [191] ;arrested and imprisoned at Pampeluna, [191] . Lexington, Lord, signs a convention which engages to secure to Madame des Ursins “a sovereignty,” [277] . Longueville, Anne de Bourbon, Duchess de, no longer guided by La Rochefoucauld, she loses herself in aimless projects and compromises herself in intrigues without result, [3] ;the most ill-treated of all the political women of the Fronde, [36] ; a retrospection of her career during the Fronde, [36] ; though no longer the brilliant Bellona of Stenay, she does not dream of separating her fate from that of Condé, [38] ; her conversion to be dated from her sojourn in the convent at Moulins, [38] ; she implores pardon of her husband, [39] ; she is taken from Moulins to Rouen by her husband, [39] ; the fair penitent finds a ghostly guide in M. Singlin, [40] ; who advises her to remain in the outer world, [40] ; her desire to abstain from political intrigue looked upon incredulously for some years, [41] ; still placed by Mazarin (in 1659) among the feminine trio “capable of governing or overturning three great kingdoms,” [41] ; results of her long and rigid penitence, [41] ; protects the Jansenists and earns the designation of “Mother of the Church,” [41] ; acquires great reputation at the Court of Rome, [41] ; the austerities and self-mortification of her widowhood, [42] ;
the death of her son, Count de St. Paul, the last blow of her earthly troubles, [43] ; the scene depicted by Madame de Sevigné on the arrival of the fatal tidings, [43] ; her death at the Carmelites, [44] ; the funeral oration by the Bishop of Autun, [44] ; three well-defined periods in her agitated life, [45] ; Mrs. Jameson’s ideas of the mischievous tendencies of political women, as shown in the career of the Duchess, [46] ; Mrs. Jameson’s erroneous estimate of the character of Madame de Longueville, [46] -[47] . Louis XIV., King of France; his triumphant entry into Paris with his mother and Turenne, [15] ;his attention drawn to the wit and capacity of Madame des Ursins, [134] ; acts of violence against his Protestant subjects, [136] ; endeavours to bend Spain to his own designs, [151] ; recommends to his grandson an implacable war against Spanish Court etiquette, [163] ; the long train of disasters which brought Louis to the brink of an abyss, [168] ; the succession of Philip V. threatens to endanger the very existence of the French monarchy, [168] ; desires to recall Madame des Ursins, but finds his hand arrested, [175] ; writes to the Abbé d’Estrées touching the complaints against Madame des Ursins, [179] ; his letters to the King and Queen of Spain, [183] ; his insuperable objection to a government of Prime Ministers, and still more of women, [187] ; in his restoration of the Princess des Ursins his sagacity triumphs over his repugnance, [188] ; represented in Spain by his nephew, the Duke of Orleans, [254] ; secretly assists the party in Spain of fara da se , [261] ; his displeasure at Madame des Ursins delaying the signature of the Treaty of Utrecht, [282] ; his tart letter to his grandson, [283] ; limits Philip’s choice of a consort to three princesses, [287] . Louville, Marquis de, the duel with Madame des Ursins, [171] ;his fall: recalled from Madrid, [172] ; accuses Madame des Ursins of being “hair-brained in her conduct,” [177] . Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigny, Marquise de, her star rises slowly above the political horizon, [114] ;the secret of Madame des Ursins’ appointment first broached in her cabinet, [143] ; favours that candidature, [145] ; the dazzling aspect of her laurels in Madame des Ursins’ eyes, [148] ; her letters reveal the policy of Louis XIV. with regard to Spain, [151] ; her favourable intervention in behalf of the exiled Madame des Ursins, [185] , [186] ; her motives for supporting the Princess, [186] ; dwells upon her equanimity, [193] ; changes the tone of her letters to a cold and sometimes ironic vein, [257] ; opposes the design of her old friend for a “sovereignty,” [269] ; she divines the concealed project of Madame des Ursins, [277] . Mancini, Hortensia, Duchess de Mazarin, cuts to the quick Charles II. of England, [114] . Marlborough, Sarah Jennings, Lady Churchill, and subsequently Duchess of, her birth and parentage, [207] ;peculiar graces of her mind and person, [208] ; Swift renders homage to her virtue, [208] ; aspirants to her hand, [208] ; altogether portionless, wooed and won by the avaricious John Churchill, [208] ; hard, vindictive, insatiable of wealth and honours, [210] ; united to the pride of a queen the rage of a fury, [210] ; brought up in close intimacy with the Princess Anne, her early assumed absolute ascendency, [215] ; the grounds on which she obtained and held place in Anne’s service, [215] ; intoxicated with her almost unlimited sway, [218] ; no longer deigns to ask, but commands, [218] ; her influence well understood by the Continental powers, [218] ; domination her favourite passion, [221] ; exercised her absolute sway over the Queen with an imprudent audacity, [222] ; endless succession of piques, jeers, and misunderstandings between her and the Queen, [222] ; become a Princess of the Empire, subordinate duties are repugnant to her, [223] ;
her benefactions to Abigail Hill’s relatives, [224] ; perceiving the Queen’s confidence in Mrs. Masham, she heaps upon her every species of contempt, sarcasm, and insult, [225] ; her insulting behaviour to the Queen at St. Paul’s, [225] ; another altercation unduly breaks the links of their friendship, [226] ; discovers that her empire over the Queen is gone, [228] ; traces the whole system of deception carried on to her injury, [228] ; curious predicament between sovereign and subject, [230] ; her uprightness and singleness of mind, openness, and honesty, [230] ; long-repressed malice pours forth its vengeance on the disgraced favourite, [234] ; a fresh outbreak of violence precipitates her final disgrace, [236] ; her account of her last interview with the Queen at Kensington, [237] ; terrifies Anne by threatening to publish her letters, [242] ; her economy in dressing the Queen, [242] ; the return of the gold key, [244] ; the resignation accepted with eagerness and joyfulness, [245] ; the Duchess thinks only of some means or other of revenge, [246] ; her directions when about to quit the sphere of her palace triumphs, [246] ; withdraws to her country seat near St. Albans, [246] ; becomes soured by adversity and disgusted with the Court and the world, [247] ; disposed to wrangle and dispute on the slightest provocation, [247] ; a great affliction in the death of a long-tried friend, Lord Godolphin, [247] ; the Duke and Duchess leave England, [248] ; the attitude assumed by the Duke and Duchess throughout the political conflicts which agitated the Court during her residence abroad, [307] ; returns to England shortly after the death of Anne, [308] ; very far from possessing the influence she had enjoyed during Anne’s reign, [308] ; her feverish thirst for political and courtly intrigues return upon her despite the advance of old age, [308] ; her shrewd and sound advice to her husband, [308] ; survives her illustrious husband twenty-two years, [309] ; her reply to the “proud Duke” of Somerset on the offer of his hand, [309] ; the testimony of respect she owed to the memory of a husband who left so great a name, [309] ; the instructive lesson derivable from her extraordinary and signal disgrace, as emphatically given by herself, [309] , [310] ; her death at eighty-four, [310] ; her singular fate in private life—“that scarcely did she possess a tie which was not severed or embittered by worldly or political considerations,” [310] . Marlborough, John Churchill, afterwards Duke of, son of a poor cavalier knight, he enters the army at sixteen, [208] ;love, not war, the first-stepping-stone to his high fortunes, [208] ; obtains a pair of colours in the Guards through the interest of his sister Arabella, [208] ; known to the French soldiery as “the handsome Englishman,” [208] ; complimented by Turenne on his gallantry and serene intrepidity, [209] ; Turenne’s wager, [209] ; solicits unsuccessfully the command of a regiment from Louis XIV., [209] ; declared by Lord Chesterfield “irresistible either by man or woman,” [209] ; rises rapidly at Court, [209] ; his daring adventure with the Duchess of Cleveland, [210] ; presented by her with 5000l. , with which he buys an annuity, [210] ; marries Sarah Jennings, [210] ; testifies the greatest affection for his wife, [210] ; climbs fast up the ladder of preferment, [211] ; coldly forsakes his benefactor James II., [211] ; created Earl and General by William III., [211] ; Duke and Commander of the British armies by Queen Anne, [211] ; his deceitful and selfish character, [211] ; if his soul was mean and sordid, his genius was vast and powerful, [212] ; his neglected education and consummate oratory, [212] ; the most powerful personage in England, [214] ; rules the household, parliament, ministry, and the army, [214] ;
rules the councils of Austria, States-General of Holland, Prussia, and the Princes of the Empire, [214] ; as potent as Cromwell, and more of a king than William III., [214] ; writes a stern letter to his wife on her dissensions with the Queen, [229] ; detained in England by “the quarrel among the women about the Court,” [231] ; Dean Swift’s unjust insinuations, [234] ; his courage called in question, and he is represented as the lowest of mankind, [234] ; his cold reception on his return from Flanders, [242] ; his ruling passion—love of money—made him stoop to mean and paltry actions, [243] ; his motives for retaining command of the army under a Tory Ministry, [245] ; the mask of envy, hatred, and jealousy, [247] ; the death of Lord Godolphin determines him to reside abroad, [247] ; his request to see the Queen before his departure refused, [248] ; furnished with a passport by his secret friend Lord Bolingbroke, [248] ; his steady correspondence with his friends, [307] ; refuses to approve of the Peace of Utrecht, or abandon his desire for the Hanoverian succession, [307] ; sees the cabals of his native country reflected in the Court of Hanover, [307] ; returns to England shortly after the death of Queen Anne, [308] ; witnesses the triumph of the Whigs on their return to power at the accession of George I., [308] ; reproached by the Duchess for no longer taking an active part in public affairs, [308] ; attacked with paralysis which deprives him of speech and recollection, [308] ; his death (in 1722), [308] ; his gentleness and devotion towards his wife and children, [309] ; how he governed his imperious consort, [309] ; the testimony of respect shown to his memory by the Duchess refusing offers of marriage from Lord Coningsby and the Duke of Somerset, [309] . Masham, Mrs. (afterwards Lady), her origin, related to the Duchess of Marlborough and Harley, [221] ;appointed bed-chamber woman to the Queen, [221] ; married to Masham when Abigail Hill, [221] ; her lowly, supple, artful character, [222] ; her servile, humble, gentle and pliant manner towards the Queen, [224] ; coincides with Anne in political and religious opinions, [224] ; strives to sap the power and credit of the Whigs and to displace Marlborough, [225] ; after an altercation with the Duchess, the Queen gives her entire confidence to Mrs. Masham, [226] ; ever on the watch to turn such disagreements to skilful account, [227] ; gradually worms herself into the Queen’s affections and undermines the Mistress of the Robes, [227] ; the petty and ungrateful conduct of the bed-chamber woman, [227] ; mean and paltry instances of treachery to her benefactress, [227] ; the upstart favourite exhibits all the scorn and insolence of her nature, [229] ; an instance of Mrs. Masham’s stinging impertinence towards the Duchess, [230] ; the influence of the favourite, [233] . Mazarin, Cardinal, his exclamation on hearing that Mademoiselle de Montpensier had fired upon the king’s troops, [10] ;quits France once more to facilitate a reconciliation with the Frondeurs, [13] ; received on his return by the Parisians with demonstrations of delight, [15] ; his triumph over the Fronde, the result of his prudent line of conduct, [16] ; his reception at the Louvre by Anne of Austria and the Court, [17] ; the heads of the two powerful families of Vendôme and Bouillon become the firmest supporters of his greatness, [20] ; his good fortune opens the eyes of every one to his merit, [31] ; his solemn reception by the King and Queen not an idle pageant or empty ceremony, [32] . Medina-Cœli, Duke de, head of the purely political Spanish system, [169] ;his double character, [196] ; is arrested by Madame des Ursins, and ends his days in prison, [256] . Meilleraye, Marshal la, advances against the Princess de Condé at Montrond, [83] .
Melgar, Admiral Count de, plots the downfall of Philip V. and the elevation of the Archduke, [170] ;traitorously joins the Portuguese and their allies, [170] ; his death from an insult, [171] . Mercœur, Duke de (eldest son of Cæsar, Duke de Vendôme), married to the amiable and virtuous Laura Mancini, [21] ;made Governor of Provence, [21] . Montbazon, Marie d’Avangour, Duchess de, one of those who made most noise at Anne of Austria’s Court, [61] ;summary of her character, [61] ; a list of all her lovers, titled and untitled, not to be attempted, [61] ; very nearly the cause of a duel at the door of the king’s apartments, [62] ; often used as an instrument by Madame de Chevreuse, [62] ; a dangerous rival to Madame de Guéméné, [62] ; instigates the Count de Soissons to add outrage to desertion of Madame de Guéméné, [62] ; her long exercised influence over Beaufort useful to the Court, [62] ; wanting in all the better qualities of a political woman, [62] ; proposes to enter into a treaty of alliance with De Retz, [63] ; very mercenary both in love and politics, [64] ; tricked out of 100,000 crowns by Condé and the Princess Palatine, [64] ; returns to Court after an exile of five years, [65] ; Madame de Motteville’s description of her well-preserved beauty, [65] ; dies of the measles—three hours only accorded to her to prepare for death, [66] ; looked back with horror on her past life, [66] ; little regretted by any one save De Rancé, [66] ; the sight of her sudden death determines De Rancé to withdraw from the world, [67] ; Laroque’s version of the catastrophe, [67] . Montpensier, Anne Marie Louise d’Orleans, called La Grande Mademoiselle Duchess de, mingles in all the intrigues of the Fronde, [6] ;adopts unwise means to force herself as a bride upon the young king, [6] ; by her noble conduct in the struggle at the Faubourg St. Antoine, she saves the live of Condé, [10] ; her description of Condé’s most pitiable condition, [11] ; characterises the Bourbons as much addicted to trifles, [69] ; a hint by which, looking at her portrait, her character may readily be read, [69] ; the commencement of her political and military career, [69] ; her companions-in-arms, the Countesses Fiesque and Frontenac, [70] ; she hoped to exchange the helmet of the Fronde for the crown of France, [70] ; she describes the Civil War as being a very amusing thing for her, [70] ; her defence of Orleans against the royal troops, [71] ; thrust through the gap of an old gateway and covered with mud, [71] ; hastens to arrest the massacre at the Hotel de Ville, [71] ; driven out of doors by her father—her wanderings, [72] ; expiates her pranks by four years’ exile at St. Fargeau, [72] ; numerous pretenders to her hand, [72] ; the masquerades of 1657 carry the day over the political aims of 1652, [73] ; is reconciled to her cousin, Louis XIV., [73] ; conflicts of the heart succeed to political storms, [73] ; destined to extinguish with the wet blanket of vile prose the brilliancy of a long and romantic career, [73] ; history ought not to treat too harshly the Frondeuse of the blood-royal, [73] ; the supreme criterion for the appreciation of certain women is the man whom they have loved, [74] ; Lauzun makes an impression upon her at first sight, [74] ; her own account of the discovery of her love for him, [75] ; asks the king’s permission to marry the Gascon cadet, [75] ; after giving permission, Louis XIV. retracts, [75] ; Mad. de Sevigné’s laughable account of Mademoiselle’s grief, [76] ; probability that a clandestine marriage had been accomplished, [76] ; Anquetil’s account of a putative daughter, [76] ; a secret chamber occupied by Lauzun in the Château d’Eu, [76] ; she obtains Lauzun’s release after ten years’ captivity, [77] ; he shows her neither tenderness nor respect, but beats her, [78] ; they separate and never meet again, [78] ;
her death at the Luxembourg, [78] ; her creditable position among French writers and her encouragement of literary men, [79] Montellano, Duke de, replaces Archbishop Arias in the presidency of Castile, [172] ;counterbalances the authority of Porto-Carrero, [172] ; offended at the attitude of the princess, he resigns, [196] . Nemours, Charles Amadeus of Savoy, Duke de, wounded in the Fronde war, is visited in various disguises by the Duchess de Châtillon, [4] ;wounded in several places in the combat at the Faubourg St. Antoine, [9] ; is killed in a duel with his brother-in-law, Beaufort, [14] . Noirmoutier, Duke de, circulates his sister’s annotated letter throughout Paris, [179] .