grown out of feafon; and when fickly old age, condemned by the looking-glafs, and by its "peremptory fentence, death, doth dread itself." • Madame de Longueville took a very decided part in the troubles of the Fronde against Cardinal Mazarin, and by the power of her charms brought over the celebrated Duc de Rochefoucault to take part with the Princes, and had even prevailed upon the god like Turenne to make the army revolt which he commanded. La Rochefoucault faid indeed in the words of Racine,

Pour fatisfaire fon cœur, pour plaire à ses beaux yeux, J'ai fait le guerre aux Rois, je l'aurois faite aux dieux.

After the death of the Duke of Longueville, and when the troubles of France ceafed, the retired to a Convent, where the ended her days in penitence and aufterity.

In the zenith of her charms and of her confequence, Madame de Longueville was taken to pafs fome days at a nobleman's house in the country. She was afked, as ufual, how fhe intended to entertain herfelf there, whether in walking, in reading, or in any of the amufements of the field. She put the negative on thefe, and frankly anfwered," Je n'aime point les amusemens "bonnêtes." Her brother the Prince of Condé was one day reading to her part of an Epic Poem,

and

and afked her what he thought of it.

"Il est très

beaux, en verité, mais très ennuyeux-It is very "fine, to be fure, but it is very tiresome.”

Madame de Longueville became quite another perfonage when he became religious. For her first advances to that difpofition of mind the was indebted to her aunt the Duchefs of Montmorency, the widow of the Duke of that name (who was beheaded by the fanguinary Richelieu), and who had taken the veil, and was made the Abbefs of a Convent at Moulins, to confecrate the remainder of her life to lament the lofs and to pray for the foul of her accomplished and beloved husband. Madame de Longueville was obferved one day, at the Convent of Port Royal, fitting and converfing with a gentleman who belonged to that celebrated feminary of learning and of piety, and who was the gardener of the place. The gentleman faid to her, "What would the world fay of your "Highness, if they faw a gardener converfing

familiarly with you, and feated in your presence?" The world," replied Madame de Longueville, "would say that I am much altered."

* At the Convent of the Urfulins of that Town, in the Church of which Convent the erected a moft magnificent Mausoleum to the memory of this illuftrious Nobleman.

At

At the conference between Cardinal Mazarin and Don Louis de Haro, which took place previous to the celebrated Treaty of the Pyrenees, whilft the latter negotiator was telling the Cardinal that one woman, meaning Madame de Longueville, could not poffibly disturb the tranquillity of a great kingdom like that of France: "Alas, Sir," replied Mazarin, "Your Excellence talks much at 66 your eafe upon thefe matters. Your women in Spain meddle with no intrigues but those of gallantry, but it is not fo in France; we have "there three women that are capable either of "governing or of deftroying three great king"doms-Madame de Longueville, the Princess "Palatine, and the Duchefs of Chevreufe."

GASTON, DUKE OF ORLEANS.

POSTERITY will not readily forgive this Prince for not exerting himself fufficiently to fave his friend, the illuftrious Montmorency, from the fcaffold; the fame feebleness of mind infecting him in this, as on most other occafions. During the time of the Fronde, had his mind been fufficiently fteady and determined, he might have been the arbiter of his divided and distracted country.

Antonio

Antonio Priuli gives this melancholy account of the latter years of a Prince of the Blood, brother to one Monarch, and uncle to another:

Gafton," fays he, "on the King's (Louis the "XIV th) triumphant return into Paris, with his "mother Anne of Auftria and the Cardinal, fet "out for his palace near Blois, without feeing or "taking leave of his Sovereign; and having been "in the former part of his life wholly managed "by his fervants, he gave himfelf entirely up in "the latter part of it to the management of his "wife, Margaret of Lorraine. He became a

great sportsman and a great botanist, and not "only became devout himself, but inspired the "whole city of Blois with the fame spirit. He

died (as is fuppofed) of a lethargy, having had "antimony improperly adminiftered to him; and "after having figured away as a Leader of a Party

and a Prince, was buried in the Royal Abbey "of St. Denis, with a private funeral, the Heralds who attended the corpfe being barely paid their charges. Thus ended," adds Priuli, "Gafton "Duke of Orleans, who having been a hopeful "child, paffed his youth in pleasure, always under "the direction of his own fervants, and never at his own difpofal."

Gafton,

Gaston, who was a man of parts though not of understanding, left behind Memoirs of French "History from the Year 1608 to 1635." They are printed.

PRINCE OF CONDÉ.

THE term petits maîtres was first applied to this great General and his followers, who, flushed with the victories of Lens, &c. which he had gained, on their return from the army to Paris, gave themfelves a great many airs, and were in fufferably impertinent and troublesome.

Richelieu, a very good judge of men, was much ftruck with the precocity of talents that appeared in this Prince when he was very young. He told Chavigny, "I have been juft now having a con" verfation of two hours with the young Duke d'Enghuien upon the art military, upon religion, and upon the interefts of Europe: he will be "the greatest General in Europe, and the first man of his time, and perhaps of the times to " come."

Louis XIV. who could never forgive the part Condé took against him in the Fronde, feems