clares himself a lover of Madame de Chevreuse
to gain political importance, 210.

LONGUEVILLE, Duchess de, see ANNE DE BOURBON.

LONGUEVILLE, Marie d'Orleans, see Duchess de NEMOURS.

LONGUEVILLE, Henry de Bourbon, Duke de, marries Anne de Bourbon, 13;
titular lover of Madame de Montbazon, 70;
plenipotentiary at the Congress of Munster in 1645, 132;
gives up the Duchess as a hostage to the Fronde, 159;
raises Normandy against Mazarin, 158;
he imperatively commands the Duchess to join him in Normandy, 253.

LORET, his rhyming description of the supper given by Madame de
Sevigne to Madame to Chevreuse, 212.

LORRAINE, Charles IV., Duke of, involved in the conspiracy of Soissons
through Madame de Chevreuse, 26;
prefers amusing himself with civil war to the quiet enjoyment of his
throne, 271.

LOUIS _the Just_ (XIII. of France), signs the death warrant of his
favourite, Cinq Mars, 29;
his decree of exile against Madame de Chevreuse, 33.

LOUIS XIV., his majority declared, 256.

LUYNES, Charles de, Favourite of Louis XIII., marries Marie de Rohan
(afterwards Duchess de Chevreuse), 17

LUYNES, the (late) Duke de, aided the Pope against the Garibaldians,
18.

MAULEVRIER, the Marquis de, writer of the dropped letters addressed to
Madame de Fouquerolles, 13.

MAZARIN, Jules, Cardinal, succeeds Richelieu as Prime Minister, 32;
his origin, 44;
is hated by the nobles, parliament, and middle classes, 44;
installed in office, 45;
his first service to Anne of Austria, 45;
his striking personal resemblance to Buckingham, 46;
how he obtained entire sway over the Queen-Regent, 47;
applies himself to gain her heart, 47;
finds a formidable opponent to his policy in Madame de
Chevreuse, 48, 54;
is terrified by her matrimonial projects, 54;
flirts with Madame de Chevreuse, 55;
his attentions to Madame de Guymene, 56;
his difficulty to make the Queen comprehend his policy towards
Spain, 60;
declares that Madame de Chevreuse would ruin France, 61;
forewarned of a conspiracy to destroy him, 62;
the great families opposed to him, 63;
his anxieties and perplexities, 64;
the relations between him and the Queen, 64;
his intervention in the quarrel of the rival Duchesses, 74;
his resolution in confronting the plot of the _Importants_, 79;