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
MONTPENSIER, Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, called _La Grande
Mademoiselle_ Duchess de, mingles in all the intrigues of the
Fronde, 6;
adopts unwise means to force herself as a bride upon the young
king, 6;
by her noble conduct in the struggle at the Faubourg St. Antoine,
she saves the live of Conde, 10;
her description of Conde's most pitiable condition, 11;
characterises the Bourbons as much addicted to trifles, 69;
a hint by which, looking at her portrait, her character may readily
be read, 69;
the commencement of her political and military career, 69;
her companions-in-arms, the Countesses Fiesque and Frontenac, 70;
she hoped to exchange the helmet of the Fronde for the crown of
France, 70;
she describes the Civil War as being a very amusing thing for
her, 70;
her defence of Orleans against the royal troops, 71;
thrust through the gap of an old gateway and covered with mud, 71;
hastens to arrest the massacre at the Hotel de Ville, 71;
driven out of doors by her father--her wanderings, 72;
expiates her pranks by four years' exile at St. Fargeau, 72;
numerous pretenders to her hand, 72;
the masquerades of 1657 carry the day over the political aims of
1652, 73;
is reconciled to her cousin, Louis XIV., 73;
conflicts of the heart succeed to political storms, 73;
destined to extinguish with the wet blanket of vile prose the
brilliancy of a long and romantic career, 73;
history ought not to treat too harshly the Frondeuse of the
blood-royal, 73;
the supreme criterion for the appreciation of certain women is the
man whom they have loved, 74;
Lauzun makes an impression upon her at first sight, 74;
her own account of the discovery of her love for him, 75;
asks the king's permission to marry the Gascon cadet, 75;
after giving permission, Louis XIV. retracts, 75;
Mad. de Sevigne's laughable account of Mademoiselle's grief, 76;
probability that a clandestine marriage had been accomplished, 76;
Anquetil's account of a putative daughter, 76;
a secret chamber occupied by Lauzun in the Chateau d'Eu, 76;
she obtains Lauzun's release after ten years' captivity, 77;
he shows her neither tenderness nor respect, but beats her, 78;
they separate and never meet again, 78;
her death at the Luxembourg, 78;
her creditable position among French writers and her encouragement
of literary men, 79
MONTELLANO, Duke de, replaces Archbishop Arias in the presidency of
Castile, 172;
counterbalances the authority of Porto-Carrero, 172;
offended at the attitude of the princess, he resigns, 196.
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