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stainless nobleness by years of persecution, and bequeathed her, as a lifelong prisoner, to his dastard son. Then, on the royal side, there was Anne of Austria, sufficient unto herself, Queen Regent, and every inch a queen (before all but Mazarin),--from the moment when the mob of Paris filed through the chamber of the boy-king, during his pretended sleep, and the motionless and stately mother held back the crimson draperies with the same lovely arm that had waved perilous farewells to Buckinghan,--to the day when the news of the fatal battle of Gien came to her in her dressing-room, and she remained undisturbed before the mirror, not neglecting the arrangement of a single curl. In short, every woman who took part in the Ladies' War became heroic,--from Marguerite of Lorraine, who snatched the pen from her weak husband's hand and gave De Retz the order for the first insurrection, down to the wife of the commandant of the Porte St. Roche, who, springing from her bed to obey that