adventures in Normandy. She raises the standard of revolt at
Dieppe, 180;
pursued by the Queen, she assumes male attire and reaches Rotterdam
and Stenay, 181;
becomes the motive power of "_the Women's War_" or _Second_
Fronde, 182;
the message from her dying mother, 183;
her gracious reception by their Majesties on her return from
Stenay, 222;
the most brilliant period of her career, 223;
the idol of Spain, the terror of the Court, and one of the grandeurs
of her family, 223;
her motives for opposing the marriage of her brother with
Mademoiselle de Chevreuse, 228;
urges Conde to cut the knot, and make war upon the Crown, 246;
her conduct, feelings and motives examined at this juncture, 247;
was she the cause of the rupture of Conti's projected marriage, 248;
peremptorily commanded to join her husband in Normandy, 253;
she perceives a change in La Rochefoucauld's feelings, 254;
follows the Princess de Conde into Berri, 254;
the Duke de Nemours pays court to her, 262;
certain obscure relations between them drives La Rochefoucauld to a
violent rupture, 264;
a rivalry of beauty leads her to humiliate Madame de Chatillon, 265;
how Madame de Longueville fell into "the scandalous chronicle," 266;
her grave cause of complaint against La Rochefoucauld, 266;
Madame de Chatillon attempts to ruin her in Conde's estimation, 296;
her fatal policy in the Fronde arrests the national greatness for
ten years, and nearly ruins the House of Conde, 296;
the disgraceful conspiracy formed against her, 298.

ARISTOCRACY in France, its constitution in the reign of Louis XIV.,
i. 217.

BEAUFORT, Francis de Vendome, Duke de (called the "King of the
Markets"), a suitor for the hand of Anne de Bourbon, 12;
a leader of the _Importants_, 15;
a rival of Mazarin in the Queen's good graces, 52;
his character as sketched by La Rochefoucauld, 52;
becomes the led-captain of Madame de Montbazon, and the bitterest
enemy of Mazarin, 53;
his spite against Madame de Longueville, 71;
his conduct in the affair of the dropped letters, 73;
insinuates that they were from Coligny, 71;
irritated at the banishment of Madame de Montbazon, he enters into a
plot against Mazarin, 76;
the ungovernable impetuosity of his vengeance against Madame de
Longueville str