BY
SUTHERLAND MENZIES,
AUTHOR OF “ROYAL FAVOURITES,” ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
Henry S. King & Co.,
65, Cornhill, and 12, Paternoster Row, London.
1873.
[All rights reserved.]
| PART I. | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | vii | |
| BOOK I. | ||
| CHAP. I. | —Anne de Bourbon (sister of the Great Condé) | 3 |
| II. | —The Duchess de Longueville | 12 |
| III. & IV. | —The Duchess de Chevreuse | 17, 35 |
| BOOK II. | ||
| CHAP. I. | —Anne of Austria’s Prime Minister and his policy | 43 |
| II. | —The Duchess de Montbazon—Affair of the dropped letters—The Quarrel of the rival Duchesses | 66 |
| III. | —The Importants | 77 |
| IV. | —Conspiracy of the Duchess de Chevreuse and the Duke de Beaufort to get rid of Mazarin | 82 |
| V. | —Failure of the plot to assassinate Mazarin—Arrest of Beaufort—Banishment of Madame de Chevreuse and dispersion of the Importants | 99 |
| VI. | —Results of the quarrel between the Duchesses—Fatal duel between the Duke de Guise and Count Maurice de Coligny | 110 |
| [vi] | ||
| BOOK III. | ||
| CHAP. I. | —The Duchess de Longueville and the Duke de la Rochefoucauld | 121 |
| II. | —La Rochefoucauld draws Madame de Longueville into the vortex of politics and civil war | 131 |
| III. | —The Duchess de Chevreuse driven into exile for the third time | 143 |
| IV. | —Fatal influence of Madame de Longueville’s passion for La Rochefoucauld—The Fronde | 149 |