he had loved him, 175;
arrested on the authority of his own signature and imprisoned at
Vincennes, 177;
what constituted the strength of the Princes' party in the Second
Fronde, 188;
the majority of the women who meddled with politics were, through
sympathy, of his party, 203;
his aged mother supplicates in vain for his release, and returns
home to die, 204;
his liberation effected by no other power than that of female
influence, 206;
he treats Mazarin with contempt at Havre, and on his release becomes
master of the situation, 215;
is courted by both the Fronde and Queen's party, 215;
eight hundred princes and nobles partisans of Conde, 217;
his sole error not having a fixed and unalterable object, 230;
applies himself to form a new Fronde, 234;
resumes the imperious tone which had previously embroiled him with
the Queen and Mazarin, 237;
Hocquincourt proposes to assassinate Conde, 243;
he retreats to St. Maur and holds a Court there, 245;
reappears in Parliament, 245;
Chateauneuf and Mazarin labour to destroy him, 257;
he narrowly escapes an ambuscade at Pontoise, 258;
motives which rendered him averse to civil war, 259;
his final determination to unsheath the sword, 260;
raises the standard of revolt in Guienne, 262;
his adventurous expedition, 275;
to what did Conde aspire? 277;
his inconstancy--offers himself to Cromwell and to become Protestant
to have an English army, 278-280;
the income and possessions of his family, 278;
he escapes for the tenth time being taken and slain, 282;
takes command of the Fronde forces and throws himself upon the royal
army, 283;
routs Hocquincourt and attacks Turenne unsuccessfully, 285;
unjust accusation of Napoleon I. that Conde wanted boldness at
Bleneau, 286;
he leaves the army and hastens to Paris, 287;
in abandoning the Loire he commits an immense and irreparable
error, 289;
invests Madame de Chatillon with full powers as an ambassadress,
291;
imbued by her with a design for peace by means the most
agreeable, 291;
a graceful memento of her power over him still existing in the
ancient Chateau of the Colignys, 293;
Madame de Chatillon and Madame de Longueville dispute for Conde's
heart, 294;
the overthrow of Mazarin a necessary condition of the do