son and reaches
Montrond, 83;
she escapes from Montrond under cover of a hunting party, 83;
escorted to Bordeaux by the Dukes de Bouillon and de la
Rochefoucauld, 84;
becomes an amazon and almost a heroine in the insurrection at
Bordeaux, 84;
scene in the Parliament chamber, 84;
her particular talent for speaking in public, 84;
works with her own hands at the fortifications of the city, 85;
all the conditions by the Princess, save one, conceded, 85;
Conde's remark that "whilst he was watering tulips, his wife was
making war in the south," 85;
her rapturous reception of a tender note from Conde, 85;
she again becomes the despised and humiliated wife, 86;
a tragic event adds itself to the train of her tribulations,
outrages, and troubles, 87;
imprisoned by the Prince at Chateauroux until his death, 88;
Bossuet in his panegyric of the hero gives not one word of praise to
the ill-fated Princess, 89.

CONTI, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de, weakens the party of the Princes
by his dissensions with his sister, Madame de Longueville, 3.

DARTMOUTH, Lord, his version of the affair of the gold keys, 244.

ESTREES, Cardinal d', directs the ultra-French political system at
Madrid, 169;
a formidable adversary of Madame des Ursins, 172;
her tool, without knowing it, 173;
he demands his recall in accents of rage and despair, 175.

ESTREES, the Abbe d', is laughed at and despised by Madame des
Ursins, 176;
his letter to Louis XIV. scandalising her intercepted by her, 176;
the letter of Louis XIV. recalling him, 180.

FARNESE, Elizabeth, Princess of Parma, afterwards second consort of
Philip V. of Spain, her lineage and true character, 294;
chosen by Madame des Ursins as consort of Philip V., 289;
her outrageous dismissal of the _camerara-mayor_, 292;
her character as sketched by Frederick the Great, 294.

FERTE-SENNETERRE, Marshal de la, brings powerful reinforcements to the
royal army from Lorraine, 7.

FIESQUE and FRONTENAC, the Countesses, the adjutant-generals of Madame
de Montpensier in "the Women's War," 69.

FORCE, Duke de la (father-in-law of Turenne), made Marshal of
France, 24.

FRONDE, the army of the, discouraged and divided (July, 1652); the
fight at the Faubourg St. Antoine an act of despair, 7;
the defeat of Conde