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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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