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The Fronde and Mazarin—A Brittany Manor—Borrowed Locks—The Flight to St Germains—A Gouty Duke—Across the Channel—The Evil Genius—The Scaffold at Whitehall—Starving in the Louvre—_The Mazarinade_—Poverty—Condé’s Indignation—The Cannon of the Bastille—The Young King.