Political Women, Vol. 2Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883
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Political Women, Vol. 2
Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883
Women -- Biography; Women in politics -- Biography
CONDE, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de, his small success in pleasing the
fair sex, 4;
almost always badly dressed, 4;
his party very sensibly weakened by rivalries and gallant intrigues
among the political heroines, 5;
fixes his head-quarters at St. Cloud, 6;
is distracted by different passions and feelings, 6;
betrayed on all sides amidst a series of impotent intrigues, 7;
his error in having preferred the counsels of his fickle mistress,
Madame de Chatillon, to those of his courageous and devoted
sister, 7;
his talent and courage in the struggle at the Faubourg St. Antoine, 8;
is saved from perishing by the noble conduct of Madame de
Montpensier, 10;
his sore distress at the loss of his slain friends, 11;
his mind disabused with regard to Madame de Chatillon, he shows by
his countenance how much he despises her, 12;
proposes such hard conditions to the Royalists that all accord with
him becomes impossible, 13;
he retires to the Netherlands, and becomes _generalissimo_ of the
Spanish armies, 13;
is declared guilty of high treason and a traitor to the State, 14;
plunges deeper than ever into the Spanish alliance and the war
against France, 14;
restored to his honours and power, the Princess de Conde becomes
once more the despised, alienated, humiliated wife, 86;
he keeps her imprisoned until his death, and recommended that she
should be kept so after his decease, 88.
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