DE, Duchess de Longueville, her birth and
parentage, i. 1;
her desire for conventual seclusion, 5;
her great personal beauty, 7;
her character, 10;
suitors for her hand, 12;
married to the Duke de Longueville, 13;
her conduct towards a crowd of adorers, 14;
has a formidable enemy in the Duchess of Montbazon, 66;
the quarrel between the rival Duchesses in the affair of the dropped
letter, 71;
public apology made her by Madame de Montbazon, 74;
unoccupied with politics at this juncture, 79;
error of the _Importants_ in not conciliating her, 79;
scandalised by Coligny's championship of her in the duel with
Guise, 117;
said to have witnessed the duel from behind a window-curtain, 118;
verses on the occasion, 118;
Miossens (afterwards Marshal d'Albret) tries in vain to win her
heart, 121;
her two individualities of opposite natures, 122;
her defective education, 122;
character of her epistolary style, 123;
the different kind of education given by Menage to Madame de Sevigne
and Madame de la Fayette, 124;
the conquest of her heart and mind by La Rochefoucauld, 125;
_resume_ of her life (up to 1648), 131;
queen of the Congress of Munster, 133;
acquires a taste for political discussions and speculations, 134;
Madame de Motteville's portrait of her at this period (1647), 135;
she sacrifices everything for La Rochefoucauld, 140;
exercises a somewhat ridiculous empire over her brother Conti, 142;
fatal influence of her passion for La Rochefoucauld, 149;
throws herself into the first Fronde, 149;
ultimately involves in it every member of her family, 150;
arrayed against her brother Conde in civil war, 154;
she shares all the fatigues of the siege of Paris, 157;
her energy and intrepidity, 158;
is given up as a hostage to the Parliament by her husband, 159;
gives birth to Charles de Paris, _the Child of the Fronde_, in the
Hotel de Ville, 159;
is reconciled to Conde, resumes her ascendancy over him, and
detaches him from Mazarin, 162;
her embarrassment on reappearing at Court, 163;
the perilous path she is led into by her infatuation for La
Rochefoucauld, 166;
undertakes to mislead Conde and give him over to Spain, 167;
the Queen orders her to be arrested; she escapes to Normandy with La
Rochefoucauld, 179;
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