She was the greatest heiress in France, and an exceedingly vain and
eccentric person, aged twenty-three at the beginning of the Fronde.
It only remains to say that I have no definite authority for
introducing such a character as that of Clement Darpent, but it is
well known that there was a strong under-current of upright, honest,
and highly-cultivated men among the bourgeoisie and magistrates, and
that it seemed to me quite possible that in the first Fronde, when
the Parliament were endeavouring to make a stand for a just right,
and hoping to obtain further hopes and schemes, and, acting on higher
and purer principles than those around him, be universally
misunderstood and suspected.
C. M. YONGE.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. WHITEHALL BEFORE THE COBWEBS
CHAPTER II. A LITTLE MUTUAL AVERSION
CHAPTER III. CELADON AND CHLOE
CHAPTER IV. THE SALON BLEU
CHAPTER V. IN GARRISON
CHAPTER VI. VICTORY DEARLY BOUGHT
CHAPTER VII. WIDOW AND WIFE
CHAPTER VIII. MARGUERITE TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER IX. THE FIREBAND OF THE BOCAGE
CHAPTER X. OLD THREADS TAKEN UP
CHAPTER XI. THE TWO QUEENS
CHAPTER XII. CAVALIERS IN EXILE
CHAPTER XIII. MADEMOISELLE'S TOILETTE
CHAPTER XIV. COURT APPOINTMENTS
CHAPTER XV. A STRANGE THANKGIVING DAY
CHAPTER XVI. THE BARRICADES
CHAPTER XVII. A PATIENT GRISEL
CHAPTER XVIII. TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL
CHAPTER XIX.
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25