268 OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON.

who, having no other support, would

her arms by gratitude and necessity. "With

she herself to Alberoni, who, since the

of the Due de Vend6me, had remained at Madrid charged

the of Parma; and proposed to him the marriage

of the of Parma, daughter of the Duchess and of the

of who had married the widow of his

brother.

with difficulty believe his ears. An alliance

so to him so much the more incredible,

he the Court of France would never consent to

it, its the marriage could not be con-

in the issue of double ille-

; by her from a pope, by her mother

a of Charles Quint. She was daughter

of & of of a mother, entirely Austrian

of the and of the Dowager Queen of

disapproval that she was

her at Toledo to Bayonne), sister too of the

of induced the King, her husband,

to receive the Archduke at Lisbon, and to carry the war into

It did not reasonable, therefore, that such a

be accepted as a wife for the King of

Spain.

Nothing of all this, liovever^ stopped the Princess des Ursins;
the pressing consideration with her •

the of the of was entirely subject to her; she

felt all the her of our King and of Madame

de ; she no for a return of their favour;

she she around for support against the

her so powerfully, and

her; and herself solely in pushing

a she expected everything by

the use of the as she had made of the

of devout, he absolutely

& the des Ursins of an age when her

the of &rt; in a word, she set Alberoni