TURENNE, Marshal de, his error in attacking Conde without his entire force, 7; rivals Conde in boldness and obstinacy, 8; his frigid, reflective, and profoundly dissembling character, 22; carefully conciliated and caressed by Mazarin, 24; made Governor of Auvergne, and the Viscounty of Turenne erected into a principality, 24; his wager on the subject of Churchill's gallantry, 211. URSINS (Orsini), Marie Anne de la Tremouille-Noirmoutier, Princess de, untoward result of the dramatic vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuit of political power, 131; married to the Prince de Chalais, 132; joins her husband in Spain, whither he had fled from the consequences of a duel, 133; first meeting with Madame Scarron, 133; left a childless widow on her arrival in Rome, 133; the attention of Louis XIV. directed to her wit and capacity, 134; she marries, with a political purpose, the Duke de Bracciano, 134; her mode of life and career at Rome, 134; character of the Duke, 135; untoward misunderstandings arise through her extravagances, 136; the passion for politics and power obtains mastery over her mind, 137; the Orsini in some sort a sacerdotal family, 137; dogmatic questions prove a stumbling block to conjugal harmony, 138; forms a close intimacy with the Marechale de Noailles, 138; her varied resources appreciated by the minister Torcy, 138; presented to Madame de Maintenon on visiting Versailles, 138; reconciled to her husband, the Duke, on his death-bed, 139; is highly esteemed by the cabinet of Versailles, 140; wins over Innocent XI. to favour the pretensions of the Duke d'Anjou, 141; she aspires to govern Spain, 142; manoeuvres to secure the post of _camerara-mayor_, 142; the art and caution with which she negotiates with the Marechale de Noailles, 143; the astute programme traced by her for de Torcy, 145; naive expression of delight at her success, 146; sets forth regally equipped to conduct the Princess of Savoy to her husband, 148; enters upon her militant career at an advanced age, 148; entirely possessed by her painstaking ambition, 149; enters upon her new mission with zeal, ardour, and activity, more than virile, 149; truly devoted to Spain, without failing in her devotion to France, 152; wages a determined war against the Inquisition, 152; seeks to establish her power by masking it, 152; first meets Maria Louise, of Savoy, at Villefranche, 153; makes herself acceptable to the young Queen, 153; her wrath and stupefaction at the French dishes being upset, 159; installed definitively as _camerara-mayor_ at Madrid, 160; onerous and incongruous duties of the post, 162; her policy of keeping to herself sole access to the King and Queen, 163; sacrifices her dignity to her power and influence, 163;