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nde had held its position she might very probably have held hers. Conde, being unable to marry her himself, on account of the continued existence of his invalid wife (which he sincerely regretted), had a fixed design of marrying her to the young King. Queen Henrietta Maria cordially greeted her. lamented more than ever her rejection of the bashful Charles II., and compared her to the original Maid of Orleans,--an ominous compliment from an English source. The royal army drew near; on July 1, 1652, Mademoiselle heard their drums beating outside. I shall not stay at home to-day, she said to her attendants, at two in the morning; I feel convinced that I shall be called to do some unforeseen act, as I was at Orleans. And she was not far wrong. The battle of the Porte St. Antoine was at hand. Conde and Turenne! The two greatest names in the history of European wars, until a greater eclipsed them both. Conde, a prophecy of Napoleon, a general by instinct, incapable of defeat, in