Parisians as Coadjutor, 151;
his character--ladies of gallantry his chief political agents, 152;
his conspicuous merits and faults, 172;
his master-stroke of address, 201;
his best concerted measures abortive through his inclination for the
fair sex, 208;
fails to acquire the confidence of anyone--is threatened with
assassination, 209;
lends an ear to Cromwell and contracts a close friendship with
Montrose, 209;
has the same interests with Madame de Chevreuse in securing the
union of her daughter with Conti, 210;
an analysis of his character, antecedents, and aspirations, 293;
admitted unwillingly into the secret councils of the Queen, 240;
his midnight interview with Anne of Austria, 241;
holds the key of Paris, 275;
he trims and follows the Duke d'Orleans, 280.

RICHELIEU, Cardinal de, his government through terror, 24;
conspiracy to destroy him, 26-30;
result of his efforts to consolidate the regal power, 32.

RICHELIEU, Duke de, engaged to Mademoiselle de Chevreuse, but forced
by Conde to marry clandestinely when under age, Mademoiselle de
Pons, 174.

ROCHEFOUCAULD, Francis, second Duke de la--his career as Prince de
Marsillac, 127;
his character of the Duchess de Longueville, 10;
his advice to Madame de Chevreuse, 39;
Madame de Fouquerolles confides to him the secret of the dropped
letters, 73;
he delivers her and her lover from their terrible anxiety, 73;
seeks to hush up and terminate the quarrel of the rival Duchesses,
80;
constitutes himself the champion of Madame de Chevreuse's innocence
of Beaufort's plot, 83;
allies himself with that illustrious political adventuress, 128;
desirous of securing to his party the master-mind of Conde to avenge
himself of the Queen and Mazarin, 128;
makes persistent love to Madame de Longueville and wins her
heart, 129;
his cynical maxim on the love of certain women, 129;
his personal and mental characteristics, 137;
the way in which he superseded Miossens as the lover of Madame de
Longueville, 139;
his sordid motive as her wooer, 140;
his restless spirit and ever discontented vanity, 167;
effects the escape from Paris of Madame de Longueville, 178;
gives proof of a rare fidelity through the whole of "the Women's
War," 183;
his ancestral chateau of Verte