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
LONGUEVILLE, Anne de Bourbon, Duchess de, no longer guided by La
Rochefoucauld, she loses herself in aimless projects and
compromises herself in intrigues without result, 3;
the most ill-treated of all the political women of the Fronde, 36;
a retrospection of her career during the Fronde, 36;
though no longer the brilliant Bellona of Stenay, she does not dream
of separating her fate from that of Conde, 38;
her conversion to be dated from her sojourn in the convent at
Moulins, 38;
she implores pardon of her husband, 39;
she is taken from Moulins to Rouen by her husband, 39;
the fair penitent finds a ghostly guide in M. Singlin, 40;
who advises her to remain in the outer world, 40;
her desire to abstain from political intrigue looked upon
incredulously for some years, 41;
still placed by Mazarin (in 1659) among the feminine trio "capable
of governing or overturning three great kingdoms," 41;
results of her long and rigid penitence, 41;
protects the Jansenists and earns the designation of "Mother of the
Church," 41;
acquires great reputation at the Court of Rome, 41;
the austerities and self-mortification of her widowhood, 42;
the death of her son, Count de St. Paul, the last blow of her
earthly troubles, 43;
the scene depicted by Madame de Sevigne on the arrival of the fatal
tidings, 43;
her death at the Carmelites, 44;
the funeral oration by the Bishop of Autun, 44;
three well-defined periods in her agitated life, 45;
Mrs. Jameson's ideas of the mischievous tendencies of political
women, as shown in the career of the Duchess, 46;
Mrs. Jameson's erroneous estimate of the character of Madame de
Longueville, 46-47.
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