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Excerpt from The War of Women, Vol. 1 But when he had had the honor of escorting the court back to Paris in triumph, he amused himself by making sport of it. Considering that he was not rewarded in proportion to his glory and his services, says Voltaire, he was the first to ridi cule Mazarin, to defy the queen, and insult the government he despised. No crime against the State could be imputed to Conde; nevertheless he was arrested at the Louvre, he and his brother Conti, and his brother ia-law Longueville, without ceremony, and simply because Mazarin feared them. The proceeding was, in truth, contrary to all laws, but laws were disregarded by all parties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.