us of Savoy, Duke de, wounded in the Fronde war,
is visited in various disguises by the Duchess de Chatillon, 4;
wounded in several places in the combat at the Faubourg St.
Antoine, 9;
is killed in a duel with his brother-in-law, Beaufort, 14.
NOIRMOUTIER, Duke de, circulates his sister's annotated letter
throughout Paris, 179.
ORLEANS, Gaston, Duke d', but for his daughter, his inaction would
have allowed Conde to perish, 10;
his interview with Conde after the fight, 12;
exiled to Blois, 15;
passes there the remainder of his contemptible existence, 25.
ORLEANS, Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I., Duchess d',
admits Louise Querouaille into her household as
maid-of-honour, 96;
intrusted with the negotiating of detaching England from the
interests of Holland, 97;
her character and personal attributes at five-and-twenty, 97;
her unbounded power over her brother, Charles II., 97;
the secret of Louis XIV.'s progress to Flanders, known only to
her, 99;
embarks from Dunkirk for Dover, with La Querouaille and initiates
the secret negotiation with her brother, 99;
Charles falls into the snare and Henrietta carries most of the
points of that disgraceful treaty, 99;
takes her maid-of-honour back to France to incite Charles's desire
to retain her in his Court, 100;
the Duchess thought more of augmenting the greatness of Charles than
of benefiting England, 100;
her motives for undertaking all this shameful bargaining, 102;
on her return to Paris, a cabal in her household seeks to effect her
destruction, 102;
the motives originating the plot, 103;
she is seized with a mortal illness at St. Cloud, 104;
the heartless indifference of all around her, save Madlle. de
Montpensier, 105;
her dying declaration that she was poisoned, 105;
Bossuet consoles her in her last moments, 106;
the cause of her death falsely attributed to _cholera-morbus_, 106;
St. Simon's statement of the poison being sent from Italy by the
Chevalier de Lorraine, 107;
the intrigues which led to the murder present a scene of accumulated
horrors and iniquity, 107;
the last political act of the Duchess calculated to secure the
subjection of the English nation, 107.
ORLEANS, Philip II. (nephew of Louis XIV. and afterwards Regent),
Duke
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