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
FRONDE, the army of the, discouraged and divided (July, 1652); the
fight at the Faubourg St. Antoine an act of despair, 7;
the defeat of Conde destroys the Fronde, 11;
approaching its last agony, it treats with Mazarin for an
amnesty, 13;
contrasted with the Great Rebellion in England, 29;
the revolt of the Fronde belonged especially to high-born
Frenchwomen, 35.
GWYNNE, Nell, her rivalry of the Duchess of Portsmouth, 111;
difference in character of their respective triumphs, 112.
GUISE, Henri, Duke de, rallies to Mazarin after the Fronde, 28;
his violent passion for Mdlle. de Pons, 59;
elected by the Neapolitans their leader after Masaniello, 59;
defeats the Spanish troops and becomes master of the country, 59;
is betrayed through his gallantries and carried prisoner to
Madrid, 60;
attempts to reconquer Naples but fails, 60;
is appointed Grand Chamberlain of France, 60;
his duels, his romantic amours, his profusion, and the varied
adventures of his life, 60.
HALLAM, Henry (the historian), his remarks: "that the fortunes of
Europe would have been changed by nothing more noble than the
insolence of one waiting-woman and the cunning of another," 246;
that "the House of Bourbon would probably not have reigned beyond
the Pyrenees but for Sarah and Abigail at Queen Anne's
toilette," 246.
HARCOURT, Duke d', intercedes for the exiled Princess des Ursins, 185.
HARLEY (afterwards Earl of Oxford), his talents and character, 219;
uses his relation, the bed-chamber woman, as a political tool, 222;
his plan to overthrow the Whigs by degrees, 233.
LEGANEZ, Marquis de, conspires in favour of the Archduke Charles, 191;
arrested and imprisoned at Pampeluna, 191.
LEXINGTON, Lord, signs a convention which engages to secure to Madame
des Ursins "a sovereignty," 277.
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