BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, Viscount, his remark to Voltaire concerning Marlborough, 212; his career, character, and abilities, 220; possessed the talents and vices which have immortalised as well as disgraced Mirabeau, 221.
BOUILLON, Duke de, advises an immediate attack on Condé at the Faubourg St. Antoine, 8; a first-class politician, but with only one thought--the aggrandisement of his house, 22; a glance at his antecedents, 22; obtains the title of Prince, 23; is cut short in his ambitious career by death, 24.
BOULAY, Marquis de la, prevented from crossing swords with his rival, de Choisy, by Madame de Châtillon seizing a hand of each, 5.
BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, second Duke of, sent to Paris to inquire into the sudden death of Henrietta of England, 107; he persuades Louise de Quérouaille to transfer herself to the service of the Queen of England, 108; seeks to turn her to his own advantage by raising up a rival to the Duchess of Cleveland in the king's affections, 108; offers to escort her to England, but forgets both the lady and his promise, and leaves her at Dieppe, 109.
BUSSY-RABUTIN, Count de, his account of a scene in public between Charles II. and the Duchess of Portsmouth, 113.
CAMBIAC, Abbé, enamoured of the Duchess de Châtillon, 4; retires on finding Condé is his rival, 5.
CAPRES, Bournonville, Baron de, negotiates with the Dutch touching the principality for Madame des Ursins, 281; liberally rewarded by Philip V., 281.
CARIGNAN, Princess de, her projects for governing her niece the Queen of Spain, 155.
CHARLES II. of England, the unbounded power over his mind possessed by his sister Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, 97; falls into the snare laid for him by Louis XIV., and is captivated by Louise Quérouaille, 99; the secret negotiation initiated at Dover by the Duchess, 99; the key to his will found in La Quérouaille, 100; the main features of the secret negotiation, 101; he is rendered doubly a traitor by his abandonment of the latter condition, 101; indignantly refuses to receive the Duke d'Orleans' letter acquainting him with his sister's death, 106; he pretends to believe the explanations offered him, 106; sends Buckingham to Paris ostensibly to inquire into the catastrophe, but in reality to conclude the treaty, 108; France gives three million of livres for Charles's conversion to Popery, and three for the Dutch war, 108; creates Louise Quérouaille _Duchess of Portsmouth_, 110; creates his son by her Duke of Richmond, 111; Madame de Sévigne's amusing account of Charles's duplicate amours, 111; his fatal seizure, 115; declares his wish to be admitted into the Church of Rome, 117; receives the offices of Father Huddlestone, 118; in his last moments commends the Duchess of Portsmouth to the care of his brother James, 118; the alleged poisoning of Charles II., 119.