e governorship of Havre for La
Rochefoucauld, 53;
the skill, sagacity, and address of her counter-intrigues, 55;
tries the power of her charms on Mazarin, 55;
devotes her whole existence to political intrigue and conspiracy,
56;
want of precaution in her attacks upon Mazarin, 58;
her curious struggle for supremacy with the Prime Minister, 58;
the head and mainspring of the _Importants_, 58;
her tactics to displace Mazarin in favour of Chateauneuf, 59;
she organises a _coup-de-main_ to destroy Mazarin, 62;
arranges with the Cardinal the composition of Madame de Montbazon's
apology, 74;
her politic purpose of a fete to the Queen foiled by the insane
pride of Madame de Montbazon, 76;
her efforts to deprive Mazarin of supporters, 80;
her share in Beaufort's plot, 82;
Madame de Montbazon only an instrument in her hands, 89;
her behaviour on the failure of the plot, 106;
recommended by the Queen to withdraw from Court, 107;
carries on a vast correspondence under the mantle of the English
embassy with Lord Goring, Croft, Vendome, and Bouillon, and the
rest of the _Malcontents_, 109;
her irritation at being prohibited from visiting the Queen of
England, 143;
Mazarin watches her every movement, 144;
ordered to retire to Angouleme, she goes for a third time into
exile, 144;
her bark is captured by the English Parliamentarians and she is
carried into the Isle of Wight, 146;
Mazarin has Montresor arrested in hopes of possessing himself of her
costly jewels, 146;
applies herself to maintain an alliance between Spain, Austria and
Lorraine--the last basis of her own political reputation, 147;
preserves her sway over the Duke de Lorraine, 148;
frustrates Mazarin's projects to win over the Duke, 148;
becomes once more the soul of every intrigue planned against the
government, 148;
constitutes herself the mediatress between the Queen and the
Frondeurs, 206;
partially restored to the Queen's confidence, 210;
assisted in her political intrigues by the Marquis de Laigues, 210;
a splendid supper given to her by Madame de Sevigne, 211;
forms a plan with the Princess Palatine of a grand aristocratic
league against Mazarin, 224;
the Fronde in 1651 was Madame de Chevreuse, 225;
she procures Conde's release from prison, 225;