a href="@public@vhost@g@html@files@27192@27192-h@27192-h-1.htm.html#Page_36" class="pginternal">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;

manoeuvres 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, 79;
• their error in not conciliating Madame de Longueville, 79;
• was e 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.