See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

ANNE See also:

• MARIE

MARIE See also:

• LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)

LOUISE See also:

• ANNE MARIE LOUISE MONTPENSIER
• MONTPENSIER, COUNTS AND DUKES OF

MONTPENSIER  D'See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

ORLEANS, DUCHESSE DE (1627-1693), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French memoir-writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the Louvre on the 29th of May 1627 . Her See also:

• FATHER

father was Gaston of Orleans, " See also:

• MONSIEUR (Fr., formed from men, my, and sieur, lord)

Monsieur," the See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XIII . Her See also:

• MOTHER

mother was See also:

• MARIE

Marie de See also:

• BOURBON
• BOURBON, CHARLES, DUKE OF (149o-1527)

Bourbon, heiress of the See also:

• MONTPENSIER, ANNE MARIE LOUISE
• MONTPENSIER, COUNTS AND DUKES OF

Montpensier See also:

• FAMILY

family . Being thus of the See also:

• BLOOD

blood-royal of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France on both sides, and heiress to immense See also:

• PROPERTY

property, she appeared to be very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early destined to a splendid See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage . It was perhaps the greatest misfortune of her See also:

• LIFE

life that " la grande mademoiselle " was encouraged to look forward to the See also:

• THRONE

throne of France as the result of a marriage with Louis XIV., who was, however, eleven years her junior . See also:

• ILL

Ill-See also:

• LUCK

luck, or her own wilfulness, frustrated numerous plans for marrying her to persons of exalted station, including even See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles II. of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, then See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales . She was just of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age when the See also:

• FRONDE, THE

Fronde See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out, and, attributing as she did her disappointments to See also:

• MAZARIN, JULES (1602-1661)

Mazarin, she sympathized with it not a little . In the new or second Fronde she not only took nominal command of one of the armies on the princes' See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, but she literally and in. her own See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person took Orleans by escalade . However, she had to See also:

• RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

retreat to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, where she practically commanded the See also:

• BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

Bastille and the adjoining See also:

• PART

part of the walls . On the 2nd of See also:

• JULY

July 1652, the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day of the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of the See also:

• FAUBOURG

Faubourg See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine, between the Frondeurs under See also:

• CONDE
• CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE
• CONDE, LOUIS II
• CONDE, PRINCES OF

Conde and the royal troops under See also:

• TURENNE, HENRI DE LA TOUR

Turenne, Mademoiselle saved Conde and his beaten troops by giving orders for the See also:

• GATES, HORATIO (1728-1806)

gates under her See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control to be opened and for the See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon of the Bastille to See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire on the royalists . In the See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat of the emeute which followed she installed herself in the Hotel de Ville, and played the part of mediatrix between the opposed parties . Her See also:

• POLITICAL

political importance lasted exactly six months, and did her little See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good, for it created a lifelong See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice against her in the mind of her See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin, Louis XIV .

She was for some years in disgrace, and resided on her estates . It was not till 1657 that she reappeared at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, but, though projects for marrying her were once more set on See also:

• FOOT

foot, she was now past her first youth . She was nearly See also:

• FORTY

forty, and had already corresponded seriously with Mme de See also:

• MOTTEVILLE, FRANCOISE BERTAUT DE (c. 1621-1689)

Motteville on the project of establishing a ladies' society " sans mariage et sans amour," when a See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young Gascon See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman named Puyguilhem, afterwards celebrated as M. de See also:

• LAUZUN, ANTONIN NOMPAR DE CAUMONT, MARQUIS DE PUYGUILHEM

Lauzun (q.v.), attracted her See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . It was some years before the affair came to a crisis, but at last, in 1670, Mademoiselle solemnly demanded the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king's permission to marry Lauzun . Louis, who liked Lauzun, and who had been educated by Mazarin in the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea that Mademoiselle ought not to be allowed to carry her vast estates and royal blood to anyone who was himself of the blood-royal, or even to any See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign prince, gave his consent, but it was not immediately acted on, as the other members of the royal family prevailed with Louis to rescind his permission . Not See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long afterwards Lauzun, for another cause, was imprisoned in Pignerol, and it was years before Mademoiselle was, able to buy his See also:

• RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release from the king by settling no small portion of her estates on Louis's bastards . The elderly lovers (for in 1681, when Lauzun was released, he was nearly fifty, and Mademoiselle was fifty-four) were then secretly married, if indeed they had not gone through the ceremony ten years previously . But Lauzun tyrannized over his wife, and it is said that on one occasion he addressed her thus, "See also:

• LOUISE [AUGUSTE WILHELMINE AMALIE LUISE] (1776-1810)

Louise d'Orleans, See also:

• TIRE

tire-moi See also:

• MES

mes bottes," and that she at once and finally separated from him . She lived for some years afterwards, gave herself to religious duties, and finished her Memoires, which extend to within seven years of her See also:

• DEATH

death (See also:

• APRIL

April 9, 1693), and which she had begun when she was in disgrace See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years earlier . These Memoires (Amster-See also:

• DAM

dam, 1729) are of very considerable merit and See also:

• INTEREST

interest, though, or perhaps because, they are extremely egotistical and often extremely desultory . They are to be found in the See also:

• GREAT

great collection of See also:

• MICHAUD, JOSEPH FRANCOIS (1767–1839)

Michaud and Poujoulat, and have been frequently edited apart . Her Eight Beatitudes has been edited by E .

Rodocanachi as Un Ouvrage de piete inconnu (1908) . See the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of studies on La Grande Mademoiselle, by " Arvede Barine " (1902, 1905) . (G .