ongly stigmatised, 80;
prepares an ambuscade to slay Mazarin, 95;
the plot fails, 99;
is arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes, 105;
released by the Fronde and becomes master of Paris, 154;
Madame de Montbazon exercises plenary power over him, 208;
becomes one of the most conspicuous leaders of the Fronde, 215.

BEAUPUIS, Count de, detected plotting against Mazarin, escapes to
Rome, 86;
his denunciation of the evils of Richelieu's inordinate authority,
91.

BEAUTY IN WOMAN, true definition of, 8.

BOUILLON, de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duke de, conspires against
Richelieu, 25;
one of the party of the _Malcontents_, 109;
joins Conde at Saint-Maur, 245.

BOUILLON, Duchess de, given up as a hostage to the Fronde, 159;
quite as ardent in politics as Madame de Longueville, 206;
arrested by the Queen's order at her daughter's bedside, and thrown
into the Bastille, 206.

BRIDIEU, Marquis de, acts as second to Guise in duel with Coligny,
113.

BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, Duke of, his political correspondence
with Madame de Chevreuse, 19.

BURNET, Bishop, his assertion of Conde's offer to Cromwell to turn
Protestant, 280.

BUSSY-RABUTIN, Count de, value of his satire of Madame de
Longueville, 265.

CAMPION, Alexandre de, his mission to Madame de Chevreuse, 28;
his censure of Madame de Montbazon's conduct, 80.

CAMPION, Henri de, attributes the conception of the plot to destroy
Mazarin to Madame de Chevreuse in concert with Madame de
Montbazon, 89;
he stipulates with Beaufort that he should not strike Mazarin, 92;
sought for by Mazarin, he takes refuge at Anet, and afterwards at
Rome, 97.

CANTECROIX, Beatrice de Cusance, Princess de, Charles, Duke de
Lorraine madly enamoured of, 147.

CAUMARTIN, Madame de, a portrait of Madame de Chevreuse sketched by De
Retz to please the malignant curiosity of, 21.

CHATEAUNEUF, Charles de l'Aubepine, Marquis de, released from an
imprisonment of ten years, 34;
why detested by the Princess de Conde, 40;
restored to office through Madame de Chevreuse, 57;
banished to Touraine, 106;
bides his time for displacing Mazarin, and holds the seals on the
Cardinal going into exile, 107;
deprived of them by the Queen, 230;
restored to office to serve Mazarin in secret, 257;
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