Political Women, Vol. 2

by active 1840-1883 Sutherland Menzies

• Orleans, Gaston, Duke d’, but for his daughter, his inaction would have allowed Condé to perish, [10];
  • his interview with Condé after the fight, [12];
  • exiled to Blois, [15];
  • passes there the remainder of his contemptible existence, [25].
• Orleans, Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I., Duchess d’, admits Louise Quérouaille into her household as maid-of-honour, [96];
  • intrusted with the negotiating of detaching England from the interests of Holland, [97];
  • her character and personal attributes at five-and-twenty, [97];
  • her unbounded power over her brother, Charles II., [97];
  • the secret of Louis XIV.’s progress to Flanders, known only to her, [99];
  • embarks from Dunkirk for Dover, with La Quérouaille and initiates the secret negotiation with her brother, [99];
  • Charles falls into the snare and Henrietta carries most of the points of that disgraceful treaty, [99];
  • takes her maid-of-honour back to France to incite Charles’s desire to retain her in his Court, [100];
  • the Duchess thought more of augmenting the greatness of Charles than of benefiting England, [100];
  • her motives for undertaking all this shameful bargaining, [102];
  • on her return to Paris, a cabal in her household seeks to effect her destruction, [102];
  • the motives originating the plot, [103];
  • she is seized with a mortal illness at St. Cloud, [104];
  • the heartless indifference of all around her, save Madlle. de Montpensier, [105];
  • her dying declaration that she was poisoned, [105];
  • Bossuet consoles her in her last moments, [106];
  • the cause of her death falsely attributed to cholera-morbus, [106];
  • St. Simon’s statement of the poison being sent from Italy by the Chevalier de Lorraine, [107];
  • the intrigues which led to the murder present a scene of accumulated horrors and iniquity, [107];
  • the last political act of the Duchess calculated to secure the subjection of the English nation, [107].
• Orleans, Philip II. (nephew of Louis XIV. and afterwards Regent), Duke d’, represents Louis XIV. in Spain, [254];
  • distrusted by, but remains on the best footing with Mad. des Ursins, [254];
  • indulged the hope of being put in the place of Philip V., [255];
  • his suspicious negotiations with the Earl of Stanhope, [255];
  • Mad. des Ursins demands his recall and obtains it, [255];
  • denounced by Mad. des Ursins, and with difficulty escapes a scandalous trial, [256].
• Orry, Jean Louville’s accusations against him, [177];
  • Mad. des Ursins’ letter with friendly remembrances to d’Aubigny’s wife, [183];
  • recalled to France, [187];
  • reinstated by Mad. des Ursins, [190].

• Palatine, Anne de Gonzagua, Princess, if the Fronde could have been saved, her advice would have saved it, [18];
  • is associated with Mazarin’s triumph, [19];
  • her political importance dates from the imprisonment of the Princess, [54];
  • uses the feminine factionists as so many wires by which to move the men whom they governed, [54];
  • the opinions of De Retz and Mazarin upon her stability of purpose and capacity to work mischief, [54];
  • appointed superintendent of the young Queen’s household, [55];
  • retires from Court, and ends her days in seclusion, [56];
  • her conversion and penitence, [57];
  • Bossuet’s funeral oration, [57];
  • her account of her conversion addressed to the celebrated Abbé de Rancé, founder of La Trappe, [58];
  • a glance at the singular fortunes of the Duke de Guise, her first lover, [59].
• Peterborough, Lord, tears Barcelona from Philip V., [197].
• Philip V. (Duke d’ Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV.), King of Spain, grave questions raised by his accession, [151];
  • his character, [154];
  • Mad. des Ursins governs him through the Queen, [154];
  • in disguise, meets his bride at Hostalnovo, [157];
  • his mental defects—rather constituted to serve than reign, [166];
  • his first entrance into Spain radiant with youth and hope, [166];
  • Europe forms a coalition to snatch the two peninsulas from the domination of France, [167];
  • compels the recall of Cardinal d’Estrées, [174];
  • takes command of the army on the frontiers of Portugal, [179];
  • baffled at Barcelona, and takes, in mortal agony, the road to France, [198];
  • re-enters Madrid as a liberator, [252];
  • is thoroughly defeated by the Austrians at Saragossa, [257];
  • Louis XIV. advises him to abandon Spain in order to keep Italy, [257];
  • his noble letter in reply, [259];
  • his dismissal in mass of his French household, [260];
  • after the victory of Villaviciosa, sleeps on a couch of standards, [262];
  • in behalf of Mad. des. Ursins, refuses to sign the treaty of Utrecht, [281];
  • he signs the treaty unconditionally, [284];
  • his choice of a wife limited to three princesses by Louis XIV., [287];
  • secretly lends his hand to a coup d’état against Mad. des Ursins, [291];
  • gives authority to his new consort to take everything upon herself, [294];
  • succeeds in reducing Spain to obedience only a few days before the fall of Mad. des Ursins, [303].
• Porto-Carrero, Cardinal, exercises a powerful influence on Innocent XI. and Charles II. of Spain, [141];
  • is won over by Mad. des Ursins to favour the pretensions of the Duke d’Anjou, [142];
  • champion of the ultra-French political system, [169];
  • abruptly changes his policy, [172];
  • becomes a formidable adversary of the Princess des Ursins, [172];
  • refuses to act with Cardinal d’Estrées and resigns, [172];
  • the turncoat from every cause, and as a politician is annihilated, [173];
  • his intractable and arrogant temper, [173];
  • his cabal rakes into the private life of the camerara-mayor without success, [173];
  • he quits Madrid with all the French household, [174].
• Portsmouth, Louise Penhouet Quérouaille, Duchess of, the political errors of Charles II. primarily traced to her, [93];
  • more than any other of his mistresses odious to the English, [93];
  • the acme of splendour and corruption reached by the French court in 1670, [93];
  • the household of his sister-in-law, Henrietta of England, supplies Louis XIV. with a diplomatist in petticoats, [93];
  • the royal family used her as an instrument without caring about her origin, [94];
  • what Mad. de Sevigné says of her antecedents, [94];
  • revelations of the Histoire Secrète, [94];
  • the Duke de Beaufort enamoured of her, [95];
  • carries her off to Candia disguised as a page, [95];
  • on his being cut to pieces, she returns to France, [96];
  • this prank of hers proves the foundation of her fortunes, [96];
  • Henrietta of England, interested in her romantic tale, admits her as one of her maids-of-honour, [96];
  • Louis XIV. finds her an apt and willing instrument in the secret negotiation, [98];
  • the pretext of a progress to Flanders resorted to by Louis XIV. to bring La Quérouaille under the notice of Charles II., [98];
  • she embarks with the Duchess at Dunkirk for Dover, where she captivates the king, [99];
  • Louise returns to France with the Duchess of Orleans, [100];
  • the key to the will of Charles II. found in Louise, [100];
  • Louis XIV. promises of handsomely rewarding the compliant maid-of-honour, [102];
  • the Duke of Buckingham seeks to turn her to his own advantage as a rival to the Duchess of Cleveland, [108];
  • an invitation formally worded sent her from the English Court, [109];
  • is left in the lurch at Dieppe by Buckingham, [109];
  • Lord Montague has her conveyed to England in a yacht, [109];
  • she is appointed maid-of-honour to the queen, [109];
  • the intoxication of Charles at “les graces décentes” of Louise, [109];
  • the purpose of her receiving an appointment at the Court of St. James’s foretold by Madame de Sevigné, [109];
  • St. Evremond’s equivocal advice, [110];
  • created Duchess of Portsmouth, [110];
  • the domain of d’Aubigny conferred upon her by Louis XIV., [111];
  • Charles Lennox, her son by Charles II., created Duke of Richmond, [111];
  • put out of countenance by Nell Gwynne, [112];
  • in conjunction with Barillon obtains an order which suddenly changed the face of Europe, [113];
  • her triumphant sway in political matters, [113]:
  • generously sacrifices her political rôle in the matter of the “bill of exclusion,” [114];
  • her correspondence with Madame de Maintenon, [115];
  • Louis XIV. confers upon her the title of Duchess d’Aubigny, [115];
  • her creditable behaviour during the fatal seizure of Charles II., [115];
  • magnificence of her apartments, [116];
  • Barillon finds her in an agony of grief, [116];
  • the message of the mistress to the dying king’s brother, [117];
  • her political attitude during the last months of Charles’s life, [119];
  • she returns to France with a large treasure of money and jewels, [120];
  • is the object of a rigid surveillance, [120];
  • Louvois, Courtin, and the lettre de cachet, [120];
  • passes in profound obscurity the remainder of her life, [121];
  • so reduced as to solicit a pension, [121];
  • the power she possessed over the mind of Charles II., [122];
  • her beauty not comparable to that of Madame de Montespan, [123].

• Rancé, Armand, Jean Le Bouthillier (the reformer of La Trappe), the lover who regretted Madame de Montbazon the most sincerely, [6];
  • the sight of her sudden death determines him to withdraw from the world, [67];
  • the skull of the Duchess said to have been found in his cell at La Trappe, [67].
• Retz, Cardinal de, chills the Duke d’Orleans into inaction during the struggle of Condé with Turenne, [10];
  • imprisoned at Vincennes, [15];
  • obtains the red hat from Louis XIV., [26];
  • entering upon his old intrigues, he is arrested and imprisoned, [26].
• Rochefoucauld, Francis, Duke de la, blinded by a ball through his face in the fight at the Faubourg St. Antoine, [9];
  • retires to his estates, and for a few years buries himself in obscurity, [27];
  • is again received into favour, and obtains a thumping pension, [28].

• Saint-Simon, Duke de, his explanation of the ascendency of Madame des Ursins, [168];
  • his elaborate portrait of the Princess, [304].
• Savoy, Marie Louise of (daughter of Amadeus II., first wife of Philip V. of Spain), quits Italy with Madame des Ursins for Spain, [153];
  • description of her at fourteen, [153];
  • the camerara-mayor becomes indispensable to her, [154];
  • incidents of the journey to Spain, [156];
  • her first interview with Philip, who is disguised as a king’s messenger, [158];
  • the marriage at Figuieras, [158];
  • untoward incident of the supper there, [159];
  • Spanish versus French cookery, [159];
  • her indignation at the conduct of the Spanish ladies, [159];
  • attributes the audacity and rudeness of the Spanish dames to the King, [159];
  • ends by making the amende to Philip V., [169];
  • the arrival at Madrid, [160];
  • the Queen governs Philip V., and Madame des Ursins governs the Queen, [168];
  • her education and mental characteristics, [168];
  • a happy conformity of tastes, views, and dispositions attaches the Queen to Madame des Ursins, [169];
  • maintains the royal authority by the spell of her gentle and steady virtues, [198];
  • her destitution at Burgos, [199];
  • forsaken by her Court, seeks an asylum in old Castile, [200];
  • in childbirth, appeals touchingly to the attachment and courage of Madame des Ursins, [257];
  • dies suddenly at the age of twenty-six, [267].
• Spain, two political systems confront each other at Madrid, [169];
  • both reduced to impotence by Madame des Ursins, [169];
  • Gibraltar torn away for ever from Spain by a handful of British seamen, [187];
  • defenceless state of the country, [187];
  • necessary to have almost an army in each province, [199];
  • the last remnant of the army surrenders without fighting, [199];
  • the aim of the Great Alliance, [205];
  • solves by her own efforts the great question which had kept Europe so long in arms, [262];
  • called upon alone to pay the costs of the pacification (Treaty of Utrecht), [267].
• Swift, Dean, covers the Duchess of Marlborough with ridicule and obloquy, [234];
  • represents her in print as a pickpocket, [243].

• Tessé, Marshal de, commands in Spain, [191];
  • a cunning courtier but mediocre general, [197].
• Torcy, Marquis de (Prime Minister of Louis XIV.), favours the candidature of Madame des Ursins, [145];
  • his confidence in her, [152];
  • a copy of Madame des Ursins’ annotated letter sent him, [179].
• Tories, the, ousted by the Whigs, [218];
  • their dismissal demanded by the Queen’s favourite, [219];
  • with Harley and Bolingbroke at their head they work in the dark to regain power, [219];
  • set up Mrs. Masham to oppose and undermine the influence of the favourite, [224];
  • they foster the Queen’s grief at the bloodshed in the Low Countries, [235];
  • dwell upon the odious tyranny of the Duchess of Marlborough, and promise to deliver Anne from it, [236];
  • the Whigs replaced by Bolingbroke, Harley, Earl of Jersey, and the Dukes of Ormonde and Shrewsbury, [242].
• Turenne, Marshal de, his error in attacking Condé without his entire force, [7];
  • rivals Condé in boldness and obstinacy, [8];
  • his frigid, reflective, and profoundly dissembling character, [22];
  • carefully conciliated and caressed by Mazarin, [24];
  • made Governor of Auvergne, and the Viscounty of Turenne erected into a principality, [24];
  • his wager on the subject of Churchill’s gallantry, [211].

• Ursins (Orsini), Marie Anne de la Tremouille-Noirmoutier, Princess de, untoward result of the dramatic vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuit of political power, [131];
  • married to the Prince de Chalais, [132];
  • joins her husband in Spain, whither he had fled from the consequences of a duel, [133];
  • first meeting with Madame Scarron, [133];
  • left a childless widow on her arrival in Rome, [133];
  • the attention of Louis XIV. directed to her wit and capacity, [134];
  • she marries, with a political purpose, the Duke de Bracciano, [134];
  • her mode of life and career at Rome, [134];
  • character of the Duke, [135];
  • untoward misunderstandings arise through her extravagances, [136];
  • the passion for politics and power obtains mastery over her mind, [137];
  • the Orsini in some sort a sacerdotal family, [137];
  • dogmatic questions prove a stumbling block to conjugal harmony, [138];
  • forms a close intimacy with the Maréchale de Noailles, [138];
  • her varied resources appreciated by the minister Torcy, [138];
  • presented to Madame de Maintenon on visiting Versailles, [138];
  • reconciled to her husband, the Duke, on his death-bed, [139];
  • is highly esteemed by the cabinet of Versailles, [140];
  • wins over Innocent XI. to favour the pretensions of the Duke d’Anjou, [141];
  • she aspires to govern Spain, [142];
  • manœuvres to secure the post of camerara-mayor, [142];
  • the art and caution with which she negotiates with the Maréchale de Noailles, [143];
  • the astute programme traced by her for de Torcy, [145];
  • naïve expression of delight at her success, [146];
  • sets forth regally equipped to conduct the Princess of Savoy to her husband, [148];
  • enters upon her militant career at an advanced age, [148];
  • entirely possessed by her painstaking ambition, [149];
  • enters upon her new mission with zeal, ardour, and activity, more than virile, [149];
  • truly devoted to Spain, without failing in her devotion to France, [152];
  • wages a determined war against the Inquisition, [152];
  • seeks to establish her power by masking it, [152];
  • first meets Maria Louise, of Savoy, at Villefranche, [153];
  • makes herself acceptable to the young Queen, [153];
  • her wrath and stupefaction at the French dishes being upset, [159];
  • installed definitively as camerara-mayor at Madrid, [160];
  • onerous and incongruous duties of the post, 162;
  • her policy of keeping to herself sole access to the King and Queen, [163];
  • sacrifices her dignity to her power and influence, [163];
  • by familiarising the Queen with politics, she penetrates every state secret, [164];
  • renders the Queen popular among the people of central Spain, [164];
  • her wise policy for the regeneration of Spain, [165];
  • reduces both the ultra-French and purely Spanish political systems to impotence, [169];
  • fathoms the intrigues and baffles the manœuvres of Melgar, [170];
  • Louville succumbs to her, [171];
  • Porto-Carrero tenders his resignation, [172];
  • Cardinal d’Estrées her tool without knowing it, [173];
  • the Cardinal’s cabal “rakes into her private life,” [173];
  • the Queen defends her with earnest importunity, [174];
  • holds the Abbé d’Estrées in contempt, [176];
  • the intercepted letter and its marginal note, [176];
  • makes a false step in her statecraft, [176];
  • the blunder leads to a great imbroglio, [177];
  • did she always use her influence over the young Queen in a purely disinterested way? [177];
  • at the age of sixty still had lovers, [177];
  • her relations with d’Aubigny, her equerry, [178];
  • gallantry and l’entêtement de sa personne, St. Simon asserts to be her overwhelming weakness, [178];
  • she rashly resents the accusation of her marriage with d’Aubigny, [179];
  • nicely balances Louis XIV.’s power in his grandson’s Court, [180];
  • her egotistic and impatient ambition, [181];
  • the stately haughtiness of her submission to Louis XIV., [181];
  • her adroit flattery of Madame de Maintenon, [182];
  • quits Madrid as a state criminal for Italy, [184];
  • permitted to take up her abode at Toulouse, [184];
  • her artful letters and politic conduct, [185];
  • receives permission to appear at Versailles and justify herself, [186];
  • the triumph of her restoration suddenly transforms her into “a court divinity,” [188];
  • she affects to be in no hurry to return to Spain, [189];
  • procures the admission of d’Aubigny into the cabinets of Louis XIV. and Madame de Maintenon, [190];
  • authorised to form her ministry, [191];
  • her return to Spain prepared by the arrest of Leganez, [191];
  • she triumphs at Versailles, [192];
  • her lively appreciation of Louis XIV.’s mental qualities, [192];
  • the question of the prospect of her replacing Madame de Maintenon, [193];
  • Louis XIV. seduced both by her grace and talent, [193];
  • turns all things to her advantage through her lucid common sense, [194];
  • returns to Spain strengthened by disgrace, [194];
  • determines to break up the cabal of the grandees, [195];
  • foils the underhanded opposition of the high aristocracy, [196];
  • triumphs on the very brink of a volcano, [197];
  • nothing more honourable to her memory than her letters at this period of disaster, [200];
  • by speeches, letters, and overtures, she consolidates the King’s authority in Old Castile, [200];
  • one of the most vigorous instruments ever made use of by Providence, [201];
  • she flatters Madame de Maintenon about St. Cyr, [201];
  • suffering from rheumatism and a painful affection of her sight, acts in the capacity of field-marshal to the Queen, [202];
  • her courage allied with good temper, amiability and beau sang, [203];
  • her wretched quarters at Burgos, [203];
  • her temperament contrasted with that of Madame de Maintenon, [204];
  • her delicate and perilous position, [253];
  • overcomes Montellano and the friends of the old system, [253];
  • distrusts the Duke of Orleans, but remains on the best footing with him, [255];
  • opposes his policy, demands his recall and obtains it, [255];
  • has to choose between the French policy of Louis XIV. and the Spanish policy of Philip V., [257];
  • the young Queen appeals touchingly to her attachment and courage, [257];
  • resolves to remain upon the theatre of events, [258];
  • throws herself headlong into the mêlée, [258];
  • reproaches Madame de Maintenon for preferring the King’s case to his honour, [258];
  • inspires Philip V. with an energy truly worthy of the throne, [259];
  • places herself at the head of the national movement, [259];
  • flatters alike the democracy and the grandees by throwing Philip into the arms of the Spaniards, [260];
  • in deference to popular sensibilities she sacrifices Amelot and Orry, [261];
  • implores that Vendôme might be sent to command the Spanish forces, [261];
  • the victory of Villaviciosa definitely seats the Bourbons on the throne of Spain, [262];
  • sees her steadfast policy crowned by accomplished facts, [262];
  • receives the title of Highness, [262];
  • her share in the treaty of Utrecht, [264];
  • her perseverance unexampled both in idea and conduct, [264];
  • undismayed by reverses, never intoxicated by success, [264];
  • her letters to Madame de Maintenon assume a somewhat protective tone, [265];
  • at this culminating point of her greatness a humiliating catastrophe is impending, [265];
  • the measures taken by her to consolidate the power of Philip V., [266];
  • the question of the erection of a territory into a sovereignty for her, [266];
  • she is overwhelmed with reproaches on all sides, [267];
  • this check the first of a series of misfortunes which death alone closed, [267];
  • Marie Louise, of Savoy, dies suddenly, [267];
  • what mysteries did the Medina-Cœli palace witness? [268];
  • the loss of her royal mistress the remote signal which heralded her fall, [268];
  • she destroys with her own hands the structure of her individual fortunes, [268];
  • she imprudently attacks the Spanish inquisition, [269];
  • fails in the attempt and creates a host of enemies, [269];
  • Louis XIV. has a grudge against her for delaying the signature of the Treaty of Utrecht, [269];
  • the storm darkens thickly over her head, [270];
  • she consults Alberoni on the choice of Elizabeth Farnese as consort of Philip V., [270];
  • Alberoni deceives her in the representation of the Princess of Parma’s character, [270];
  • by Alberoni’s first move Madame de Ursini’s game was lost, [271];
  • she finds herself friendless in Spain, [272];
  • she neglects to conciliate her enemies, [272];
  • suspicious jealousy of domination over Philip V., [273];
  • scandal of the construction of the secret corridor in the palace, [273];
  • her error in not renouncing the idea of the principality, [275];
  • Lord Lexington signs a convention with her in which Queen Anne “engaged to secure her a sovereignty,” [277];
  • Madame de Maintenon divines her concealed project, [277];
  • sends d’Aubigny secretly to France to negotiate with Torcy, [278];
  • her proud feeling of returning to France as a sovereign princess, [278];
  • her towering rage on hearing of the repudiation of the convention by Queen Anne, [279];
  • she believes herself tricked by the English, [279];
  • despatches d’Aubigny to Utrecht, [280];
  • selects a more important personage to continue the negotiations—the Baron de Capres, [281];
  • the delay in the conclusion of the general peace imputed to her, [282];
  • Madame de Maintenon’s letter to her on that subject, [282];
  • hitherto so noble-minded, she is no longer comprehensible throughout this affair, [283];
  • nothing left but to give way; and the Treaty is signed unconditionally, [284];
  • her mortification at the failure of her pretensions, [284];
  • the Court of France is turned against her, [284];
  • she is addressed harshly and laconically by Madame de Maintenon, [284];
  • the Duke of Berwick proves unfriendly, [284];
  • she keeps Philip V. from all private audience, and scandal becomes again busy with her name, [285];
  • an anecdote circulated throughout the French world of fashion—the pendant of “Oh! pour mariée, non!” [285];
  • Philip grows wearied of the complaints, murmurs, and idle talk, [286];
  • his exclamation “Find me a wife! our tête-à-têtes scandalise the people,” [286];
  • her difficulties in the choice of a consort for Philip, [287]-[289];
  • selects Elizabeth Farnese, [289];
  • her uneasiness at the contradictory reports of the Princess of Parma’s character, [290];
  • she attempts too late to break off the match, [291];
  • that unskilful and tardy opposition prepares her ruin, [291];
  • her prompt, cruel, and decisive disgrace, [291];
  • her meeting with Elizabeth Farnese at Xadraque, [292];
  • the Queen outrageously thrusts Madame des Ursins out of her cabinet, orders her to be arrested and instantaneously conveyed to the French frontiers, [293];
  • her sufferings during the mid-winter journey, [293];
  • her touching relation to Madame de Maintenon, [293];
  • in her seventy-second year she sustains the strength and constancy of her character, [294];
  • recovers all her strength, sang-froid, and wonted equanimity, [295];
  • her just estimate of human instability, [295];
  • St. Simon’s impressive narrative of the terrible night of her rude expulsion (December 24th, 1714), [295];
  • the hard fate reserved for a woman—the founder of a dynasty and liberator of a great kingdom, [295];
  • the active correspondence of her numerous enemies both at Versailles and Madrid, [296];
  • her hopes of returning to the Spanish Court frustrated, [296];
  • the Queen leaves her letters unanswered, [296];
  • Philip declares himself “unable to refuse the maintenance of the measure taken at the instance of the Queen,” [296];
  • Louis XIV. is compelled to be guided by the decision of his grandson, [296];
  • Madame de Maintenon replies by evasive compliments, [296];
  • she perceives that all is at an end as regarded her resumption of power, [296];
  • arrives in Paris and is coldly received by Louis XIV., [296];
  • she quits France and once more fixes her abode in Rome, [297];
  • attaches herself to the fortunes of Prince James Stuart, the Pretender, and does the honours of his house, [297];
  • her death at fourscore and upwards, [297];
  • who were the real authors of the Princess’s disgrace? [297];
  • her political life in Spain characterized, [301];
  • the difference arising from the respective characters of Madame des Ursins and Madame de Maintenon, [301];
  • summary of her life and character, [303];
  • St. Simon’s elaborate portrait of the Princess, [304];
  • his remark—“She reigned in Spain, and her history deserves to be written,” [305];
  • its lesson—the fruitlessness of the devotion of a most gifted woman’s life to the pursuit of politics, [306].

• Vendôme, Cæsar, Duke de, blockades Bordeaux, [14];
  • is made High Admiral and State Minister by Mazarin, [21];
  • pursues the Spanish fleet and threatens the relics of the Fronde at Bordeaux, [21].
• Vendôme, Louis Joseph, Duke de (son of Cæsar), his victory at Villaviciosa, [262];
  • it definitely seats the Bourbons on the throne of Spain, [262].
• Vineuil, M. de, proves a dangerous emissary in Condé’s courtship of “the Queen of Hearts,” Madame de Châtillon, [5];
  • Madame de Montbazon, Madame de Mouy, and the Princess of Wurtemberg, successively experience the effects of his seduction, [5].

• War of the Spanish Succession, the more immediate circumstances that brought it about, [128];
  • Charles II. consults Innocent XI., and secretly bequeaths his crown to the Duke d’Anjou, [142].
• Whigs, the, Queen Anne’s feeling towards that party purely official, [206];
  • they labour to secure the adhesion of Lady Churchill, [207];
  • they triumph in the first struggle, [218];
  • they eject Mansel, Harley, and Bolingbroke, [218];
  • they reckon amongst their ranks Marlborough, Godolphin, Walpole, the army, public opinion, and parliament, [218];
  • the fall of the Ministry through disunion in itself, [233];
  • Dr. Sacheverel’s affair contributes to ruin the Whigs in the Queen’s favour, [234];
  • the disgrace of the Duchess involves the fall of the Whigs, [242].

THE END.

BRADBURY AGNEW & CO., PRINTERS, WHITFERIARS.