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CONTENTS
VOLUME I.
PART I.
Introduction
BOOK I.
CHAP. I. —Anne de Bourbon (sister of the Great Condé)
II. —The Duchess de Longueville
III. & IV. —The Duchess de Chevreuse
BOOK II.
CHAP. I. —Anne of Austria's Prime Minister and his policy
II. —The Duchess de Montbazon—Affair of the dropped letters—The Quarrel of the rival Duchesses
III. —The Importants
IV. —Conspiracy of the Duchess de Chevreuse and the Duke de Beaufort to get rid of Mazarin
V. —Failure of the plot to assassinate Mazarin—Arrest of Beaufort—Banishment of Madame de Chevreuse and dispersion of the Importants
VI. —Results of the quarrel between the Duchesses—Fatal duel between the Duke de Guise and Count Maurice de Coligny
BOOK III.
CHAP. I. —The Duchess de Longueville and the Duke de la Rochefoucauld
II. —La Rochefoucauld draws Madame de Longueville into the vortex of politics and civil war
III. —The Duchess de Chevreuse driven into exile for the third time
IV. —Fatal influence of Madame de Longueville's passion for La Rochefoucauld—The Fronde
V. —Madame de Longueville wins over her brother Condé to the Fronde
VI. —The causes which led to the coup d'état—The arrest of the Princes
VII. —Madame de Longueville's adventures in Normandy—The Women's War
BOOK IV.
CHAP. I. —The Princess Palatine
II. —The young Princess de Condé conducts the war in the south
III. —State of Parties on the liberation of the Princes
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
V. —Condé, urged by his sister, goes unwillingly into rebellion
VI. —Madame de Longueville coquets with the Duke de Nemours
BOOK V.
CHAP. I. —Condé's adventurous expedition
II. —Political and gallant intrigues—The Duchess de Châtillon's sway over Condé—Shameful conspiracy against Madame de Longueville

VOLUME II.
BOOK V. — continued.
CHAP. III. — The struggle between Condé and Turenne — Noble conduct of Mademoiselle de Montpensier — Fall of the Fronde
IV. — The Duke de Nemours slain in a duel by his brother-in-law Beaufort
V. — Triumph of Mazarin
BOOK VI.
CHAP. I. — Closing scenes — Madame de Longueville
II. — Madame de Chevreuse
III. — The Princess Palatine
IV. — Madame de Montbazon
V. — Mademoiselle de Montpensier
VI. — The Wife of the Great Condé
PART II.
The Duchess of Portsmouth
PART III.