. Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary . harlotte de Montmorency, whosebeauty, so coveted by Henri IV, came near causing awar, was very young when she appeared at Courtbeside her mother, Mme. la Princesse [de Conde] stillloftily brilliant, bringing with her, says Mme. deMotteville: the first charms of that angelic face,which later had such dazzling lustre, a lustre followedby so many grievous events and salutary sufferings. Her earliest and tenderest thoughts turned to piety;her end only recovered and realised the mystical dreamsof her childhood. She often accompanied Mm
. Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary . harlotte de Montmorency, whosebeauty, so coveted by Henri IV, came near causing awar, was very young when she appeared at Courtbeside her mother, Mme. la Princesse [de Conde] stillloftily brilliant, bringing with her, says Mme. deMotteville: the first charms of that angelic face,which later had such dazzling lustre, a lustre followedby so many grievous events and salutary sufferings. Her earliest and tenderest thoughts turned to piety;her end only recovered and realised the mystical dreamsof her childhood. She often accompanied Mme. laPrincesse to the Carmelite convent in the FaubourgSaint-Jacques; there she spent long hours that laterwere painted with an ideal halo in her azure imagina-tion, and revived in living colours at last when thewhirlwind had gone by. She was thirteen years old(1632) when her uncle Montmorency was immolatedat Tours to the vengeance and the policy of Richelieu;the young niece, wounded in her pride as much as inher tenderness by so sharp a blow, would fain have. ANNE-QENEVIEVE DE BOURBON, DUCHESSE DE LONQUEVXLE. Ube Ducbesse &e Xonaucv>ille. i6i imitated the august widow, and vowed herself tomourn in conventual perpetuity. Her mother began tofear this marked inclination for the worthy Carmelites;she thought she saw that the blonde, angelic face wasnot making ready to smile upon the brilliant worldwhich was about to judge it on its first this, Mile, de Bourbon replied, with an instinctiveflattery that already belied such fears: You havesuch touching graces, Madame, that as I go out onlywith you and am seen after you, no one finds any inme. The turn of Mme. de Longuevilles spirit andmind is early seen in that one saying. It is told that on the occasion of her first ball, towhich she went in obedience to her mother, a greatcouncil was held among the Carmelites, at which itwas decided, in order to conciliate matters, that beforeexposing herself to the danger, she sho
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