CONDÉ, Claire Clémence Maillé de Brézé, Princess de (wife of the Great Condé), married at thirteen to the Duke d'Enghien, who yielded only to compulsion, 80; the unenviable light in which she was held by her husband and relatives, 80; a fair estimate of her qualities, 81; her fidelity to her husband during adversity, 81; her zeal during the Woman's War, 81; her truly deplorable existence from earliest childhood, 82; her hour of fame and distinction, 83; her letters to the Queen and Ministers stamped with nobility and firmness, 83; she escapes from Chantilly on foot with her son and reaches Montrond, 83; she escapes from Montrond under cover of a hunting party, 83; escorted to Bordeaux by the Dukes de Bouillon and de la Rochefoucauld, 84; becomes an amazon and almost a heroine in the insurrection at Bordeaux, 84; scene in the Parliament chamber, 84; her particular talent for speaking in public, 84; works with her own hands at the fortifications of the city, 85; all the conditions by the Princess, save one, conceded, 85; Condé's remark that "whilst he was watering tulips, his wife was making war in the south," 85; her rapturous reception of a tender note from Condé, 85; she again becomes the despised and humiliated wife, 86; a tragic event adds itself to the train of her tribulations, outrages, and troubles, 87; imprisoned by the Prince at Châteauroux until his death, 88; Bossuet in his panegyric of the hero gives not one word of praise to the ill-fated Princess, 89.
CONTI, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de, weakens the party of the Princes by his dissensions with his sister, Madame de Longueville, 3.
DARTMOUTH, Lord, his version of the affair of the gold keys, 244.
ESTRÉES, Cardinal d', directs the ultra-French political system at Madrid, 169; a formidable adversary of Madame des Ursins, 172; her tool, without knowing it, 173; he demands his recall in accents of rage and despair, 175.
ESTRÉES, the Abbé d', is laughed at and despised by Madame des Ursins, 176; his letter to Louis XIV. scandalising her intercepted by her, 176; the letter of Louis XIV. recalling him, 180.
FARNESE, Elizabeth, Princess of Parma, afterwards second consort of Philip V. of Spain, her lineage and true character, 294; chosen by Madame des Ursins as consort of Philip V., 289; her outrageous dismissal of the _camerara-mayor_, 292; her character as sketched by Frederick the Great, 294.