expulsion (December 24th, 1714), 295; the hard fate reserved for a woman--the founder of a dynasty and liberator of a great kingdom, 295; the active correspondence of her numerous enemies both at Versailles and Madrid, 296; her hopes of returning to the Spanish Court frustrated, 296; the Queen leaves her letters unanswered, 296; Philip declares himself "unable to refuse the maintenance of the measure taken at the instance of the Queen," 296; Louis XIV. is compelled to be guided by the decision of his grandson, 296; Madame de Maintenon replies by evasive compliments, 296; she perceives that all is at an end as regarded her resumption of power, 296; arrives in Paris and is coldly received by Louis XIV., 296; she quits France and once more fixes her abode in Rome, 297; attaches herself to the fortunes of Prince James Stuart, _the Pretender_, and does the honours of his house, 297; her death at fourscore and upwards, 297; who were the real authors of the Princess's disgrace? 297; her political life in Spain characterized, 301; the difference arising from the respective characters of Madame des Ursins and Madame de Maintenon, 301; summary of her life and character, 303; St. Simon's elaborate portrait of the Princess, 304; his remark--"She reigned in Spain, and her history deserves to be written," 305; its lesson--the fruitlessness of the devotion of a most gifted woman's life to the pursuit of politics, 306. VENDOME, Caesar, Duke de, blockades Bordeaux, 14; is made High Admiral and State Minister by Mazarin, 21; pursues the Spanish fleet and threatens the relics of the Fronde at Bordeaux, 21. VENDOME, Louis Joseph, Duke de (son of Caesar), his victory at Villaviciosa, 262; it definitely seats the Bourbons on the throne of Spain, 262. VINEUIL, M. de, proves a dangerous emissary in Conde's courtship of "the Queen of Hearts," Madame de Chatillon, 5; Madame de Montbazon, Madame de Mouy, and the Princess of Wurtemberg, successively experience the effects of his seduction, 5. WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION, the more immediate circumstances that brought it about, 128; Charles II. consults Innocent XI., and secretly bequeaths his crown to the Duke d'Anjou, 142. WHIGS, the, Queen Anne's feeling towards that party purely official, 206; they labour to secure the adhesion of Lady Churchill, 207; they triumph in the first struggle, 218; they eject Mansel, Harley, and Bolingbroke, 218; they reckon amongst their ranks Marlborough, Godolphin, Walpole, the army, public opinion, and parliament, 218; the fall of the Ministry through disunion in itself, 233; Dr. Sacheverel's affair contributes to ruin the Whigs in the Queen's favour, 234; the disgrace of the Duchess involves the fall of the Whigs, 242. THE END.