Mr. H. Noel Williams's neto biographical Work 



A Princess of Intrigue : 



Madame de Longueville and her Times 

 By H. NOEL WILLIAMS 



Author of" Five Fair Sisters, "etc. 

 In 2 vols. , demy Svo, cloth gilt and gilt top, 24s. net 



With 32 fulUpage illustrations and photogravure 

 frontispieces 



In this work, Mr. Noel Williams, whose charming book, "Five 

 Fair Sisters," met with so well-deserved a success, traces the 

 eventful career of the beautiful and accomplished Anne 

 Genevieve de Bourbon, Duchesse de Longueville, daughter of 

 Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, and sister of the great 

 Conde. The period the last years of Louis XIII. 's reign and 

 the early part of that of le Grand Monarque is one of the most 

 fascinating in French History. Mazarin, the great Conde, Cardinal 

 de Retz, the Due de la Rochefoucauld, Turenne, the beautiful 

 Duchesse de Chatillon and de Montbazon, the intriguing 

 Madame de Chevieux, in fact nearly all the great figures of that 

 time play a part in the story, and are presented with picturesque 

 understanding. Madame de Longueville's early years, her re- 

 sponsibility for the fatal duel between Maurice de Coligny and 

 the Due de Guise, her visit to the Congress of Munster, her 

 passionate attachment to La Rochefoucauld, to further whose 

 interests she engaged in the intrigue against Mazarin and the 

 Court, her adventurous career during the Wars of the Fronde, 

 her conversion, and her protection of the Jansenists and Port 

 Royal, are dealt with in a highly attractive manner, and the book 

 is one which cannot fail to appeal strongly to both the student 

 of history and the general reader. 



" Here, in this busy plotting life, are illustrated to the full 

 the meannesses, the cruelties, treacheries which lie behind the 

 glory and trumpetings of France in the seventeenth century. 

 Mr. Williams has written an entertaining volume as full of 

 colour and incident as a good historical novel ought to be." 

 Daily Graphic. 



