did Mazarin owe all his great career to a falsehood cunningly
invented and audaciously sustained? 83;
the plan of the attack upon him, 92;
escapes assassination from Beaufort's nocturnal ambuscade, 99;
compels the Queen to choose her part by addressing himself to her
heart, 102;
becomes absolute master of the Queen's heart, 102;
banishes the conspirators and arrests Beaufort, 106;
his tactics and political sagacity, 111;
first introduces Italian Opera at the French Court, 135;
concludes a peace with the Fronde parliament, 161;
insulted by Conde, 169;
what constitutes the strength of his party in the _Second_
Fronde, 187;
goes into Guienne with the royal army, 205;
banished by the Fronde, 215;
treated with contempt by Conde at Havre, 215;
with difficulty finds a refuge at Bruhl, 216;
in his exile governs the Queen as absolutely as ever, 217;
his immense blunder (in 1650), 225;
rebanished and his possessions confiscated, 234;
governs France from Bruhl, 236;
foments quarrels between Conde and the Fronde, 236;
composes with the Queen a political comedy of which De Retz became
the dupe and Conde very nearly the victim, 238;
the draught of his treaty with the Fronde, the masterpiece of his
political skill, falls into Conde's hands, 256;
alarmed at the success of Chateauneuf, he breaks his ban, and
returns to France, 279;
Conde and the Fronde united against him, 280;
to gain supporters lavishly promises place and money, 290.

MEDICI, Marie de (Queen of Henry IV. and mother of Louis XIII.), her
imprisonment of Charlotte de Montmorency, 2;
conspires against Richelieu, 28.

MIOSSENS, Count de (afterwards Marshal d'Albret), tries unsuccessfully
to win the heart of Madame de Longueville, 122;
gives place to La Rochefoucauld, 130.

MONTAGU, Lord, the intimate adviser of Queen Henrietta Maria, and
slave of Madame de Chevreuse, 24;
Anne of Austria's confidence in him, 37;
his mission to Madame de Chevreuse, 38;
becomes a bigot and a devotee, 38.

MONTBAZON, Hercule de Rohan, Duke de (father of Madame de Chevreuse
and the Prince de Guymene), marries at sixty-one Marie d'Avangour
aged sixteen, 67;
recommends the example of Marie de Medici to his young wife and
takes her to Court, 67.

MONTBAZON, Marie d'Avangour, Duchess de