uil razed to the ground by Mazarin's
orders, 183;
his conduct at this time contradicts the assertion that he never
loved the woman he seduced and dragged into the vortex of
politics, 184;
his version of the true cause of the rupture of the marriage between
Mademoiselle de Chevreuse and Conti, 229:
grows weary of a wandering and adventurous life, 255;
the report of certain obscure relations existing between Nemours and
Madame de Longueville drives him to a violent rupture with the
Duchess, 264;
his accusation more absurd than odious, 264;
to indulge his revenge against Madame de Longueville, he enters into
all Madame de Chatillon's designs, 295;
directs her how to manage Conde and Nemours both at once, 298.

SCUDERY, Mademoiselle de, and the prudes of the Hotel de Rambouillet
protest strongly against the marriage of Conti with Mademoiselle
de Chevreuse, 249.

SEGUIER, Pierre, Keeper of the Seals, his character, 49.

SEVIGNE, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de, gives a splendid
supper to the Duchess de Chevreuse, 211.

SOISSONS, Count de, his conspiracy to destroy Cardinal de Richelieu,
25.

ST. MAURE, Countess of, the polish and precision of her epistolary
style, 123.

TAVANNES, Count de, a valiant _petit-maitre_ to whom Conde gives
command of the army after Bleneau, 257.

TURENNE, Marshal de, raises the standard of revolt in behalf of the
Fronde, 156;
is won over to make a treaty with Spain by Madame de Longueville,
182;
thanked by the Queen after Bleneau, for having placed the crown a
second time on her son's head, 287;
achieves the importance of being a rival of Conde, 289;
attacks the enemy's camp when half the officers of Conde's army were
at Madame de Montbazon's fete, 290.

VIGEAN, Mademoiselle de, Conde's love for, 292.

VENDOME, Duke Caesar de, the faction of, with La Vieuville and La
Valette, when emigrants in England, 23;
his pretensions and agitated life, 51;
decides to exile himself in Italy and await the fall of Mazarin,
106.

VITRY, Marshal de, prepares with Count de Cramail a _coup-de-main_
against Richelieu, 25.

END OF VOL. I.

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