BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, Viscount, his remark to Voltaire
concerning Marlborough, 212;
his career, character, and abilities, 220;
possessed the talents and vices which have immortalised as well as
disgraced Mirabeau, 221.

BOUILLON, Duke de, advises an immediate attack on Conde at the
Faubourg St. Antoine, 8;
a first-class politician, but with only one thought--the
aggrandisement of his house, 22;
a glance at his antecedents, 22;
obtains the title of Prince, 23;
is cut short in his ambitious career by death, 24.

BOULAY, Marquis de la, prevented from crossing swords with his rival,
de Choisy, by Madame de Chatillon seizing a hand of each, 5.

BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, second Duke of, sent to Paris to inquire
into the sudden death of Henrietta of England, 107;
he persuades Louise de Querouaille to transfer herself to the
service of the Queen of England, 108;
seeks to turn her to his own advantage by raising up a rival to the
Duchess of Cleveland in the king's affections, 108;
offers to escort her to England, but forgets both the lady and his
promise, and leaves her at Dieppe, 109.

BUSSY-RABUTIN, Count de, his account of a scene in public between
Charles II. and the Duchess of Portsmouth, 113.

CAMBIAC, Abbe, enamoured of the Duchess de Chatillon, 4;
retires on finding Conde is his rival, 5.

CAPRES, Bournonville, Baron de, negotiates with the Dutch touching the
principality for Madame des Ursins, 281;
liberally rewarded by Philip V., 281.

CARIGNAN, Princess de, her projects for governing her niece the Queen
of Spain, 155.

CHARLES II. of England, the unbounded power over his mind possessed by
his sister Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, 97;
falls into the snare laid for him by Louis XIV., and is captivated
by Louise Querouaille, 99;
the secret negotiation initiated at Dover by the Duchess, 99;
the key to his will found in La Querouaille, 100;
the main features of the secret negotiation, 101;
he is rendered doubly a traitor by his abandonment of the latter
condition, 101;
indignantly refuses to receive the Duke d'Orleans' letter
acquainting him with his sister's death, 106;
he pretends to believe the explanations offered him, 106;
sends Buckingham to Paris ostensibly to inquire into the
catastrophe, but in r