CHAPTER IV

I. The Regency--The Romance of Anne of Austria and Mazarin--Gaston's Second Wife--II. Mademoiselle's New Marriage Projects--III. Mademoiselle Would Be a Carmelite Nun--The Catholic Renaissance under Louis XIII. and the Regency--IV. Women Enter Politics--The Rivalry of the Two Junior Branches of the House of France--Continuation of the Royal Romance 237-327