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MADEMOISELLE ENTERING ORLEANS
FROiM THE PICTURE liV M. EUGENE FOULD IN THE SALON OF 1906
Part I Chapter I Page
Mademoiselle arrives — The Chalais affair — The Montpensier marriage — The death of the Duchess — Mademoiselle in her nursery — Louis XIII . . . . • • 3
CHAPTER n
The new Madame — Her adventures — The fate of Puylaurens — The playfellows of Mademoiselle — His Eminence her Godfather . i6
CHAPTER in
On the roads — Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse — The affair of the Val-de-Grace — A famous ride — La Rochefoucauld — Mademoiselle at Chantilly . . ... 25
CHAPTER IV
Mademoiselle in Touraine — Champigny and Richelieu — The Duchesse d'Aiguillon and her friends — Fontevrault and Madame Jeanne-Baptiste de Bourbon — A winter of hope . • • 39
Mademoiselle de Hautefort — Royal sport — " Mon petit mari " — The story of Cinq-Mars — The death of Richelieu . ■ • 55
The streets of Paris — Corneille — The theatres — The Academy — The Hotel de Rambouillet . . ... 69
CHAPTER VII
Court mourning — The death of Madame de Saint-Georges— Madame de Fiesque — The family of Guise — The death of the King 86 vi A PRINCESS OF THE OLD WORLD
CHAPTER VIII
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La Bonne Regence — The Superior of the Carmelites — The Due de Beaufort and the Importants — The arrival of Madame — The Princesse de Conde and Madame de Montbazon — A cold collation — Mazarin's triumph . . . ... 97
CHAPTER IX
Henrietta of England — The Prince of Wales — A ball at the Palais Royal — Mademoiselle's vocation — The Saujon affair — The eve of the Fronde . . . . ..112
A royal flight — The Parliament and the Princes — The adventures of Madame de Motteville — The blockade of Paris — The Comte and Comtesse de Maure . . . ... 149
Chapter IV
Charenton — The last Coligny — The Peace of Rueil^ Mademoiselle's return — The Queen's ball — The arrest of the Princes — The siege of Bordeaux — Mademoiselle " furieusement frondeuse " . 160
Friendship with Cond^ — La Princesse Palatine and Madame de Choisy — Royal matches — Cond^ in arms — The question of Orleans — A new " Jeanne la Pucelle" . . ... 174
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Mademoiselle Queen of Paris- — The Shrine of Sainte-Genevieve — Duke Charles of Lorraine — The Porte Saint-Antoine — The cannon of the Bastille — The massacre at the Hotel de Ville — The duel of Beaufort and Nemours — Mademoiselle expelled from the Tuileries — The end of the Fronde . . . . . 190
Part III
The Jacobin friar — The Chateau de Saint-Fargeau — Mademoiselle's Court in exile — The Marquise de Thianges — Family quarrels — The Due de Neubourg . . . . . 209
CHAPTER n
Journeys in Touraine — The restoration of Champigny — Forgesles-Eaux — A visit from Madame de Longueville — A practical joke — The Princess of Orange — Queen Christina of Sweden . . 223
CHAPTER HI
Mademoiselle's religion — The abbeys of Jouarre and Port Royal — Mademoiselle's return to the Court — The King and his brother — The Cardinal and his nieces — Parisian gaieties — The purchase ofEu . . . . . ... 237
CHAPTER IV
Sovereign Princess of Dombes — The Duchesse de Montmorency — Royal visits to Chambord and Blois — Royal journeys in the south — Proclamation of peace and return of Conde — The death of Gaston d'Orl^ans , . . . ... 252
Mademoiselle begins to reflect — The Spanish marriage — Life at the Luxembourg — Mademoiselle's portrait gallery — The King of Portugal — A second exile . . . . . 270 viii A PRINCESS OF THE OLD WORLD
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The title of "Mademoiselle" — Court amusements — At the Luxembourg — The death of Anne of Austria — The fancy for M. de Lauzun — An adventure in the floods — The death of Madame — "C'estvous!" 285
CHAPTER VH
Madame de Sevignd's letter — Indignation — Delays and warnings — The fatal Thursday — The marriage forbidden . . . 300
CHAPTER VIH
The story of a secret marriage — Lauzun's imprisonment — Mademoiselle's constancy — Choisy — Freedom and disillusion — The final quarrel — Last days and death of Mademoiselle . . .313
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Mademoiselle entering Orleans : from the Picture by M. Eugene Fould in /
the Salon of 1906, (Copyright) . . . . Frontispiece
{Photo., Moreau, Paris.)
FACING PAGE
Gaston de France, Due d'Orleans . . ...
Chateau de Blois : Wing built by Gaston d'Orleans {Photo., Neurdein, Paris.)
The Chapel at Champigny . . . ...
Henry d'Effiat, Marquis de Cinq-Mars : from an Engraving by Langlois . {Photo., Neurdein, Paris.)
Cardinal de Richelieu : from a Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne in the Louvre . . . . ...
{Photo., Giraudon, Paris.)
Louis XIII. . . . . ...
Mademoiselle de Montpensier : from a Miniature by Petitot at S. Kensington Museum . . . . ...
Cardinal Mazarin : after a Portrait by Mignard . ...
Cardinal de Retz . . . . ...
Louis, Prince de Conde . . . ...
Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England : from a Portrait by
Vandyck at the National Portrait Gallery . . . . 156
{Photo., Mansell, London.)
The Duchesse de Chevreuse, as a widow : after a Portrait by Ferdinand . 166 Mademoiselle de Montpensier : from a Steel Engraving . . .178
The Palace of the Tuileries : from an Old Print . . . . 191 rf'
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The Duchesse de Longueville . . . ... 228 i The Palace of the Luxembourg : from an Old Print . . . 248
Marie Theresa of Austria, Queen of France : after a Portrait by Beaubrun . 273 {Photo., Neurdein, Paris.)
Mademoiselle de Montpensier : from an Engraving by Nicolas de I'Armessin 286
Philippe de France, Due d'Orleans . . ... 298
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
THIS book is meant to be a true picture in more or less detail, drawn chiefly from contemporary memoirs, of French society in the seventeenth century, especially the society which is a natural background for the distinguished, eccentric personality of Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier, known in her own day and ours as La Grande Mademoiselle.
The life of Mademoiselle covers nearly three-quarters of the century. If the earlier part of this period has been more dwelt upon than the later, it is because people and manners in the final years of Louis XIII, under the Regency, and during the Wars of the Fronde, are less familiar to English readers than those belonging to the actual age of Louis XIV. It is also because Mademoiselle herself, picturesque, adventurous, original, loses much of her characteristic charm when she falls once and for ever under the baleful little shadow of Lauzun. FTP
CHIEF AUTHORITIES
CONTEMPORARY
Mimoires de Gaston Due d^ Orleans. Edition Petitot et Monmerque.
Mimoires de Valentin Conrart. ,j „ „
Memoires de FAbM de Choisy. „ „ „
Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier. Edition Cheruel.
MSmoires de Madame de Motteville. Edition Riaux.
MSmoires du Cardinal de Retz. Edition Champollion-Figeac.
Memoires du Due de Saint-Simon. Edition Cheruel.
Memoires du Marquis de Dangeati.
Lettres de Madame de Sivigne.
La Galerie de Portraits de Mademoiselle de Montpensier.
Deseription de la Ville de Paris. Germain Brice.
Les Historiettes de Tallema?it des Reaux. Edition Monmerque.
MODERN
Histoire du Cardinal de Riehelieu. G. Hanotaux.
Le Roi ehez la Peine. A. Baschet.
Histoire de Pranee. Henri Martin. Vols. XI and XH.
Histoire de Pranee pendant la Minorite de Louis XIV. A. Cheruel.
Madame de Chevreuse. Victor Cousin.
Madame de Hautefort. „ „
La Jeunesse de Madame de Longueville. Victor Cousin.
Madame de Longueville pendant la Pronde. „ „
Life of Louis Prince of Condi. Lord Mahon.
La Miser e au Temps de la Pronde. A. Feillet.
Causeries du Lundi. Vols. HI and V. Sainte-Beuve.
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Lafetmesse de la Grande Mademoiselle. Arvede Barine.
Louis XIV et la Grande Mademoiselle. „ „
La Duchesse de Montmorency. M. R. Monlaur.
La Rochefoucauld. A. Bourdeau. (Grands Ecrivains frangais.)
Corneille. G. Lanson. ,, d •>■>
Madame de Sevigne. G. Boissier. „ „ v
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