mination of
Conde, 296;
is advised by his sister to rely upon his sword alone, 297.

CONDE, Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, Princess de Bourbon
(mother of the Great Conde and Madame de Longueville), her
influence with Anne of Austria, 39;
her detestation of Madame de Chevreuse, 40;
tries to destroy her hold upon the Queen, 40;
her lively resentment at the insult to her daughter in the affair of
the dropped letters, 73;
demands a public reparation from Madame de Montbazon, 74;
her demeanour during the "mummeries" of the apology, 74;
obtains the privilege of never associating with Madame de
Montbazon, 75;
supplicates in vain for Conde's release, and returns home to die,
204.

CONDE, Claire Clemence de Maille, Princess de Bourbon (daughter of the
Duke de Breze, and wife of the Great Conde), shut up in Bordeaux
with the Dukes de Bouillon and de Rochefoucauld during "the
Women's War," 200, 204;
only maintains herself in Bordeaux through the aid of the rabble
_va-nu-pieds_, 205;
forced to take refuge hastily in the citadel of Montrond, 263.

CONTI, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de (brother of the Great Conde), his
extravagant adoration of his sister, Madame de Longueville, 141;
marries Anne Marie Martinozzi, niece of Mazarin, 142;
declared _generalissimo_ of the army of the king, 159;
the problem as to who was the author of the rupture of his marriage
with Madame de Chevreuse, 227;
his ardent passion for her, 231;
is made lieutenant-general in Guienne by Conde, 276;
finishes, where he begun life, with theology, 142.

CORNEILLE, Pierre, his _Emilie_ painted as a perfect heroine, 82.

FIESQUE, Gillona d'Harcourt, Countess de, 195.

FOUQUEROLLES, Madame de, her terrible anxiety lest she should be
compromised by the dropped letters, 73;
confides the secret to La Rochefoucauld, 73;
the letters are burnt in the Queen's presence, 73.

FRONDE, the, what gave it birth and sustained it, 149;
_Day of the Barricades_, 153;
the royal power attacked by three parties simultaneously, 153;
the adherents of the Fronde, 156;
initiation of the Civil War, 159;
sordid selfishness of the Frondeurs, 161;
carries everything before it in 1651, 223;
brief retrospect of the two Fronde wars, 267;
one of the most interesting as well as divertin