, called by d'Hocquincourt "la
belle des belles," the youthful stepmother of Madame de Chevreuse,
her parentage and antecedents, 67;
married at sixteen to a husband of sixty-one, 67;
her personal and mental characteristics, 68;
contrast in manners between her and Madame de Longueville, 69;
her numerous adorers; the Duke de Beaufort her titular lover, 70;
her malignant hatred of Madame de Longueville, 71;
employs her influence over the houses of Vendome and Lorraine to the
injury of her rival, 71;
the affair of the dropped letters, 71;
the party of the _Importants_ espouse her cause, 73;
she is compelled to make a public apology before the Queen and
Court, 74;
the pretended reconciliation only a fresh declaration of war, 75;
her conduct at the collation given the Queen by Madame de
Chevreuse, 76;
is banished by the King's order, 76;
she inveigles Beaufort into a plot to destroy Mazarin, 89.

MONTESPAN, Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart Mortemart, Duchess de,
her fame as a beauty, 9;
relations to her of the Dukes de Longueville and Beaufort, 14.

MONTPENSIER, Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans (known as _La Grande
Mademoiselle_), daughter of Gaston, Duke d'Orleans and cousin of
Louis XIV., preserves the text of the dropped letters, 72;
gives the two speeches made on the occasion of Madame de Montbazon's
reparation, 74.

MOTTEVILLE, Frances Bertaut, Madame de, her amusing recital of the
"mummeries" in the affair of the dropped letters, 74;
her account of the Queen's reception of the news of the abortive
attempt to kill Mazarin, 103;
her portrait of Madame de Longueville, 135;
the principal motive which urged La Rochefoucauld to woo the
Duchess, 140.

NEMOURS, Marie d'Orleans, Duchess de (daughter of Henri, Duke de
Longueville), her harsh censure of the pride and impracticability
of the Condes, 165;
quits Madame de Longueville to take refuge in a convent, 180;
moves heaven and earth for the release of Conde that he might keep
watch over the Duchess de Chatillon, 208;
her character, 212;
the enemy of the Fronde and the Condes, 227;
her detestation of Madame de Longueville, 252.

NEMOURS, Charles Amadeus, of Savoy, Duke de, prompted by the Duchess
de Chatillon, his mistress, embraces the cause of Conde, 208;
pays court