to Madame de Longueville instead of making active war in
Berri, 262;
the obscure relations between them at this juncture, drives La
Rochefoucauld to a violent rupture with Madame de Longueville,
264.

ORLEANS, Gaston, Duke d' (brother of Louis XIII.), conspires against
Richelieu, 25;
his incapacity to govern, 171;
his jealousy of the influence of Conde and of Mazarin, 171;
makes De Retz his confidant, who obtains his assent to the arrest of
the Princes, 176;
becomes the head of a fifth party in the Second Fronde, 200;
consents to the liberation of the Princes on promise that his
daughter should marry Conde's son, 207;
governed by De Retz and Madame de Chevreuse, 258.

PETITS-MAITRES, the train of Conde called, their character, 288.

PALATINE, Anne de Gonzagua, Princess (widow of Edward Prince
Palatine), peculiarities of her epistolary style, 124;
her large intelligence, solidity, refinement and ingenuity of
thought, 124;
becomes the head and mainspring of the Princes' party, or Second
Fronde, 179;
the formidable political opponent of Mazarin, 179;
her extraordinary political and diplomatical ability, 189;
her antecedents, 190;
her _liaison_ with Henri de Guise under a promise of marriage, 193;
disguised in male attire she joins her lover at Besancon, 193;
abandoned by the volatile de Guise, who elopes with the Countess de
Bossuet, she returns to Paris, 194;
is married to Prince Edward, Count Palatine of the Rhine, 194;
by her conciliatory tact she obtains the esteem of all parties in
the Fronde, 196;
De Retz's eulogium and Madame de Motteville's opinion of her, 196;
she operates on behalf of the imprisoned Princes, and negotiates
four different treaties for their deliverance, 198;
an alliance with the two camps concluded by her with De Retz, 224;
she conducts with consummate skill the negotiation between Madame de
Chevreuse and Madame de Longueville, 227.

PHALZBOURG, Princess de (sister of Charles IV. of Lorraine), acts as a
spy over Madame de Chevreuse in the interest of Mazarin, 147.

POLITICAL INTRIGUE, an affair of fashion among the ladies of Anne of
Austria's Court, 56.

RAMBOUILLET, Hotel de, 9.

RETZ, John Francis Paul Gondi, Cardinal de, the evil genius of the
Fronde, 151;
his influence over the