e in M. Singlin, 40;
who advises her to remain in the outer world, 40;
her desire to abstain from political intrigue looked upon
incredulously for some years, 41;
still placed by Mazarin (in 1659) among the feminine trio "capable
of governing or overturning three great kingdoms," 41;
results of her long and rigid penitence, 41;
protects the Jansenists and earns the designation of "Mother of the
Church," 41;
acquires great reputation at the Court of Rome, 41;
the austerities and self-mortification of her widowhood, 42;
the death of her son, Count de St. Paul, the last blow of her
earthly troubles, 43;
the scene depicted by Madame de Sevigne on the arrival of the fatal
tidings, 43;
her death at the Carmelites, 44;
the funeral oration by the Bishop of Autun, 44;
three well-defined periods in her agitated life, 45;
Mrs. Jameson's ideas of the mischievous tendencies of political
women, as shown in the career of the Duchess, 46;
Mrs. Jameson's erroneous estimate of the character of Madame de
Longueville, 46-47.

LOUIS XIV., King of France; his triumphant entry into Paris with his
mother and Turenne, 15;
his attention drawn to the wit and capacity of Madame des
Ursins, 134;
acts of violence against his Protestant subjects, 136;
endeavours to bend Spain to his own designs, 151;
recommends to his grandson an implacable war against Spanish Court
etiquette, 163;
the long train of disasters which brought Louis to the brink of an
abyss, 168;
the succession of Philip V. threatens to endanger the very existence
of the French monarchy, 168;
desires to recall Madame des Ursins, but finds his hand
arrested, 175;
writes to the Abbe d'Estrees touching the complaints against Madame
des Ursins, 179;
his letters to the King and Queen of Spain, 183;
his insuperable objection to a government of Prime Ministers, and
still more of women, 187;
in his restoration of the Princess des Ursins his sagacity triumphs
over his repugnance, 188;
represented in Spain by his nephew, the Duke of Orleans, 254;
secretly assists the party in Spain of _fara da se_, 261;
his displeasure at Madame des Ursins delaying the signature of the
Treaty of Utrecht, 282;
his tart letter to his grandson, 283;
limits Philip's choice of a consort