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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 his gallantries and carried prisoner to Madrid, 60; attempts to reconquer Naples but fails, 60; is appointed Grand Chamberlain of France, 60; his duels, his romantic amours, his profusion, and the varied adventures of his life, 60. HALLAM, Henry (the historian), his remarks: "that the fortunes of Europe would have been changed by nothing more noble than the insolence of one waiting-woman and the cunning of another," 246; that "the House of Bourbon would probably not have reigned beyond the Pyrenees but for Sarah and Abigail at Queen Anne's toilette," 246. HARCOURT, Duke d', intercedes for the exiled Princess des Ursins, 185. HARLEY (afterwards Earl of Oxford), his talents and character, 219; uses his relation, the bed-chamber woman, as a political tool, 222; his plan to overthrow the Whigs by degrees, 233. LEGANEZ, Marquis de, conspires in favour of the Archduke Charles, 191; arrested and imprisoned at Pampeluna, 191. LEXINGTON, Lord, signs a convention which engages to secure to Madame des Ursins "a sovereignty," 277. LONGUEVILLE, Anne de Bourbon, Duchess de, no longer guided by La Rochefoucauld, she loses herself in aimless projects and compromises herself in intrigues without result, 3; the most ill-treated of all the political women of the Fronde, 36; a retrospection of her career during the Fronde, 36; though no longer the brilliant Bellona of Stenay, she does not dream of separating her fate from that of Conde, 38; her conversion to be dated from her sojourn in the convent at Moulins, 38; she implores pardon of her husband, 39; she is taken from Moulins to Rouen by her husband, 39; the fair penitent finds a ghostly guid
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