to three princesses, 287.

LOUVILLE, Marquis de, the duel with Madame des Ursins, 171;
his fall: recalled from Madrid, 172;
accuses Madame des Ursins of being "hair-brained in her
conduct," 177.

MAINTENON, Francoise d'Aubigny, Marquise de, her star rises slowly
above the political horizon, 114;
the secret of Madame des Ursins' appointment first broached in her
cabinet, 143;
favours that candidature, 145;
the dazzling aspect of her laurels in Madame des Ursins' eyes, 148;
her letters reveal the policy of Louis XIV. with regard to
Spain, 151;
her favourable intervention in behalf of the exiled Madame des
Ursins, 185, 186;
her motives for supporting the Princess, 186;
dwells upon her equanimity, 193;
changes the tone of her letters to a cold and sometimes ironic
vein, 257;
opposes the design of her old friend for a "sovereignty," 269;
she divines the concealed project of Madame des Ursins, 277.

MANCINI, Hortensia, Duchess de Mazarin, cuts to the quick Charles II.
of England, 114.

MARLBOROUGH, Sarah Jennings, Lady Churchill, and subsequently Duchess
of, her birth and parentage, 207;
peculiar graces of her mind and person, 208;
Swift renders homage to her virtue, 208;
aspirants to her hand, 208;
altogether portionless, wooed and won by the avaricious John
Churchill, 208;
hard, vindictive, insatiable of wealth and honours, 210;
united to the pride of a queen the rage of a fury, 210;
brought up in close intimacy with the Princess Anne, her early
assumed absolute ascendency, 215;
the grounds on which she obtained and held place in Anne's
service, 215;
intoxicated with her almost unlimited sway, 218;
no longer deigns to ask, but commands, 218;
her influence well understood by the Continental powers, 218;
domination her favourite passion, 221;
exercised her absolute sway over the Queen with an imprudent
audacity, 222;
endless succession of piques, jeers, and misunderstandings between
her and the Queen, 222;
become a Princess of the Empire, subordinate duties are repugnant to
her, 223;
her benefactions to Abigail Hill's relatives, 224;
perceiving the Queen's confidence in Mrs. Masham, she heaps upon her
every species of contempt, sarcasm, and insult, 225;
her insulting behaviour to the Queen at S