A princess of intrigue, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, duchesse de Longueville and her times . he DowagerPrincesse de Conde for their triumph over Madame 1 Charlotte de Lorraine, Mademoiselle de Chevreuse. Madame deMotteville says of her: Mademoiselle de Chevreuse was not reallybeautiful; she had fine eyes and a beautiful mouth, and charmingfeatures ; but she was not fair enough to be beautiful. Her father,the Due de Chevreuse, declared that her eyes were capable ofinflaming the whole earth. 2 We know, from both Retz and Mazarin, that Madame de Chevreusedeliberately sacrificed her daughters honour
A princess of intrigue, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, duchesse de Longueville and her times . he DowagerPrincesse de Conde for their triumph over Madame 1 Charlotte de Lorraine, Mademoiselle de Chevreuse. Madame deMotteville says of her: Mademoiselle de Chevreuse was not reallybeautiful; she had fine eyes and a beautiful mouth, and charmingfeatures ; but she was not fair enough to be beautiful. Her father,the Due de Chevreuse, declared that her eyes were capable ofinflaming the whole earth. 2 We know, from both Retz and Mazarin, that Madame de Chevreusedeliberately sacrificed her daughters honour to her own ambitions, andconnived at this shameful intrigue between a young girl and a highdignitary of the Church, in order to obtain influence over the wrote from Bruhl: She [the Duchesse de Chevreuse] toldme in confidence, that she held him [the coadjutor] by means of herdaughter, who conducted herself in such fashion in regard to thecoadjutor as to give him her love, and wean him from that which he hadfor Madame de Guemenee. This she has repeated to me From an engraving by Gaitte. ANNE DE ROHAN, DUCHESSE DE CHEVREUSE. A Princess of Intrigue 379 de Montbazon and herself at the beginning of Notwithstanding her efforts and those of her step-mother, the negotiations made comparatively littleprogress, for Beaufort still hesitated to compromise hispopularity with the people by a reconciliation with theCardinal ; while Retz had not yet abandoned all hopeof a coalition of the two Frondes. But the institutionof criminal proceedings against the duke and thecoadjutor, and the zeal with which the Court urged onthe prosecution, had shown them plainly that, unlessthey were prepared to enter into an alliance withMazarin to crush Conde, Mazarin intended to useConde to crush them. After the Christmas vacation the trial of the accusedFrondeurs was resumed. The first week was occupiedin the investigation of the charge against Mole—a trialwithin a
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