I. The Regency—The Romance of Anne of Austria and Mazarin—Gaston's Second Wife—II. Mademoiselle's New Marriage Projects—III. Mademoiselle Would Be a Carmelite Nun—The Catholic Renaissance under Louis XIII. and the Regency—IV. Women Enter Politics—The Rivalry of the Two Junior Branches of the House of France—Continuation of the Royal Romance [237-327]

[CHAPTER V]

I. The Beginning of Trouble—Paris and the Parisians in 1648—II. The Parliamentary Fronde—Mademoiselle Would Be Queen of France—III. The Fronde of the Princes and the Union of the Frondes—Projects for an Alliance with Condé—IV. La Grande Mademoiselle's Heroic Period—The Capture of Orleans—The Combat in the Faubourg Saint Antoine—The End of the Fronde—Exile [328-436]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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La Grande Mademoiselle Frontispiece
From a steel engraving.
Marie de Médicis[6]
From a steel engraving.
The Château of Versailles from the Terrace[8]
After the painting by J. Rigaud.
The Tuileries from the Seine in the 16th Century[22]
From a contemporary print.
Madame de Sévigné[54]
From an engraving of the painting by Muntz.
Cardinal Richelieu[84]
The Abbey of St. Germain Des-pres in the 16th Century[110]
From an old print.
Louis XIII., King of France and of Navarre[152]
From an old print.
Corneille[168]
From an engraving of the painting by Lebrun.
Racine[182]
From a steel engraving.
The Hôtel de Richelieu in the 17th Century[204]
From a contemporary print.
A Game of Chance in the 17th Century[210]
From an engraving by Sébastien Leclerc.
Marquis de Cinq-Mars[212]
Anne of Austria[242]
View of the Louvre from the Seine in the 17th Century[254]
From an old print.
Henriette, Duchesse d'Orléans[258]
From a steel engraving.
St. Vincent De Paul[292]
From a steel engraving.
Duchesse de Chevreuse[300]
Cardinal Mazarin[320]
Mademoiselle de Montpensier[324]
From a steel engraving.
The Tower of Nesle[342]
From a contemporary print.
Cardinal de Retz[344]
Madame de la Vallière[366]
From a steel engraving.
Vicomte de Turenne[398]
View of the Luxembourg (Later Called the Palais
d'Orléans) in the 17th Century[410]
From an old print.
La Rochefoucauld[416]
From a steel engraving.
Prince de Condé[420]
Duc d'Orléans[422]

LA GRANDE MADEMOISELLE