g periods in French
history, 269;
contrast between its main features and the contemporary civil war in
England, 270;
the wide-spread misery it entailed on France, 270.

GUISE, Henri, Duke de Guise (grandson of the _Balafre_), espouses the
cause of Madame de Montbazon in the affair of the dropped
letters, 73;
confronts and defies the victorious Condes, 112;
fights a duel with Coligny, the champion of Madame de
Longueville, 115;
his insulting words on unsheathing his sword, 115;
result of the duel on party feeling in France, 117;
his _liaison_ with Anne de Gonzagua, 193;
becomes unfaithful to her and elopes with the Countess de
Bossuet, 194.

GUYMENE, Anne de Rohan, Princess de (sister-in-law of Madame de
Chevreuse, and daughter-in-law of Madame Montbazon), her numerous
crowd of old and young adorers, 37;
her flirtation with Mazarin, 56;
furious at having been abandoned by De Retz, offers the Queen to get
him confined in a cellar, 209.

HACQUEVILLE, Monsieur de, refuses to be a go-between of De Retz and
Madame de Chevreuse, 211.

HAUTEFORT, Marie de (afterwards Duchess de Schomberg), influence of
her piety and virtue, 37;
witnesses the arrest of Beaufort, 105.

HENRIETTA MARIA, Queen of Charles I. of England, her warm reception of
Madame de Chevreuse, 22;
seeks an Asylum in France from the Parliamentarians, 143;
asserted to have secretly married her equerry, Jermyn, 202.

HOCQUINCOURT, Charles de Monchy, Marshal d', proclaims Madame de
Montbazon "la belle des belles," 70;
is beaten by Conde at Bleneau, 284.

HOLLAND, Henry Rich, Earl of, his political correspondence with Madame
de Chevreuse, 19;
encourages the faction of Vendome, Vieuville, and La Valette, 23.

IMPORTANTS, the--Rochefoucauld's account of that faction, 77;
irritated by the banishment of their fascinating lady-leader, Madame
de Montbazon, they plot to murder Mazarin, 78;
their ruin decided upon by the Queen and Mazarin, 79;
their error in not conciliating Madame de Longueville, 79;
was the plot real or imaginary--a point of the highest historical
importance, 83;
failure of the plot and ruin of the faction, 104.

JOINVILLE, Prince de (son of Charles de Lorraine), suitor for the hand
of Anne de Bourbon, 12.

LAIGUES, Marquis de, de