Outlines of History: Embracing a Concise History of the World From the Earliest Period to the Pacification of Europe in 1815
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Their partisans took arms : the duke of Or- leans, uncle to the king, set himself at their head. The car- dinal was obliged to fly to Cologne. By the intrigues of him and de Retz the duke of Bouillon and his brother Turenne were detached from the malcontents, and Mazarin returned, 1651. escorted by 6O00 men. Conde threw himself on the protection of Spain, and en- tered Paris at the head of a body of Spanish troops. Turenne led Louis within sight of his capital, and these two great gen- erals en...gaged each other in the suburb of St. Antoine. The combat was long ; but the heroism of the daughter of the duke of Orleans, who ordered the guns of the Bastille to fire on the king's troops, decided it in favor of Conde. 1653. At length the king dismissed Mazarin, and the nation re- 1655. turned to its allegiance. Mazarin was, however, afterwards recalled, the nobles were punished, and the parliament hum- bled. The war with Spain had still continued ; it was now prose- cuted with vigor. Turenne and Conde were opposed to each 1656.
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