href="@public@vhost@g@html@files@27506@27506-h@27506-h-2.htm.html#Page_82" class="pginternal">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 @vhost@g@html@files@27506@27506-h@27506-h-6.htm.html#Page_208" class="pginternal">208;
    • love, not war, the first-stepping-stone to his high fortunes, 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.