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قراءة كتاب Political Women, Vol. 1
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POLITICAL WOMEN.
BY
SUTHERLAND MENZIES,
AUTHOR OF “ROYAL FAVOURITES,” ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
Henry S. King & Co.,
65, Cornhill, and 12, Paternoster Row, London.
1873.
[All rights reserved.]
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
| PART I. | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | vii | |
| BOOK I. | ||
| CHAP. I. | —Anne de Bourbon (sister of the Great Condé) | 3 |
| II. | —The Duchess de Longueville | 12 |
| III. & IV. | —The Duchess de Chevreuse | 17, 35 |
| BOOK II. | ||
| CHAP. I. | —Anne of Austria’s Prime Minister and his policy | 43 |
| II. | —The Duchess de Montbazon—Affair of the dropped letters—The Quarrel of the rival Duchesses | 66 |
| III. | —The Importants | 77 |
| IV. | —Conspiracy of the Duchess de Chevreuse and the Duke de Beaufort to get rid of Mazarin | 82 |
| V. | —Failure of the plot to assassinate Mazarin—Arrest of Beaufort—Banishment of Madame de Chevreuse and dispersion of the Importants | 99 |
| VI. | —Results of the quarrel between the Duchesses—Fatal duel between the Duke de Guise and Count Maurice de Coligny | 110 |
| BOOK III. | ||
| CHAP. I. | —The Duchess de Longueville and the Duke de la Rochefoucauld | 121 |
| II. | —La Rochefoucauld draws Madame de Longueville into the vortex of politics and civil war | 131 |
| III. | —The Duchess de Chevreuse driven into exile for the third time | 143 |
| IV. | —Fatal influence of Madame de Longueville’s passion for La Rochefoucauld—The Fronde | 149 |
| V. | —Madame de Longueville wins over her brother Condé to the Fronde | 161 |
| VI. | —The causes which led to the coup d’état—The arrest of the Princes | 168 |
| VII. | —Madame de Longueville’s adventures in Normandy—The Women’s War | 178 |
| BOOK IV. | ||
| CHAP. I. | —The Princess Palatine | 187 |
| II. | —The young Princess de Condé conducts the war in the south | 203 |
| III. | —State of Parties on the liberation of the Princes | 214 |
| IV. | —The Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse and the Princess Palatine in the last Fronde—Results of the rupture of the marriage projected between the Prince de Conti and Mademoiselle de Chevreuse | 221 |
| V. | —Condé, urged by his sister, goes unwillingly into rebellion | 257 |
| VI. | —Madame de Longueville coquets with the Duke de Nemours | 262 |