principale part aux affaires." At the
same time, "he urged M. le Prince to occupy himself with Madame de
Chatillon, and to give her in freehold the estate of Merlon." In such a
fashion, thanks to the honest intervention of La Rochefoucauld, a good
understanding was kept up, and the conspiracy went quietly forwards.
Conde had no mistrust whatever. A veil had been cast over his eyes; his
martial disposition lulled asleep in the lap of pleasure and in a
labyrinth of negotiations, and cradled in the hope of an approaching
peace.

INDEX.

AIGUILLON, Duchess d', her resentment against Conde for forcing her
young nephew Richelieu into a clandestine marriage, i. 174.

ANCRE, Marshal d', assassinated, i. 17.

ANET, Chateau d', a haunt of conspirators against Mazarin, i. 105.

ANNE OF AUSTRIA, Queen of Louis XIII. of France, her reception of Mad.
de Chevreuse on her return from exile, i. 39;
her dread of adventures and enterprises, 39;
Mazarin's entire ascendancy over her, 47;
hesitates to take a decided attitude between Mazarin and his
enemies, 65;
evidence of her love for Mazarin, 100;
her Regency opens under most brilliant auspices, 101;
the conspiracy to take Mazarin's life determines her to adopt his
policy, 102;
orders the arrest of Beaufort, 104;
her lively displeasure at the duel between Guise and Coligny, 116;
her jealous feeling against Madame de Longueville, 122;
retires before the Fronde to St. Germain, 155;
her endeavour to mortify the ladies of the Fronde by giving a
day-light ball, 170;
her delight at seeing Conde and the Frondeurs at daggers drawn, 174;
secretly confers with De Retz relative to the arrest of Conde, Conti
and Longueville; gives the fatal order for that _coup d'etat_,176;
orders the arrest of the Duchesses de Longueville and de
Bouillon, 178;
quits Paris for Rouen to confront Madame de Longueville, 180;
the affirmation of the Duchess d'Orleans that the Queen had secretly
married Mazarin, 201;
evidence of such marriage, 202;
finds herself in some sort a prisoner on the proscription of
Mazarin, 216;
seriously prepares to make head against Conde, 257;
her fervour, constancy, and marvellous skill manifested towards
weakening Conde, 258;
the great danger of herself, the King, and Mazarin at Gien, 287.

ANNE-GENEVIEVE DE BOURBON-CON