LONGUEVILLE, loxev61/, ANNE GENEVIEVE DE BounnoN•CoNnt, Duchess of (1619-79). A noted leader of the Fronde (q.v.) during the minority of Louis XIV. of France. She was born in the donjon of Vincennes, where her father. Henry II. of Bourbon, was a prisoner. She was the sister of the great Cond6 and the Prince de Conti. In 1642 she became the wife of the Duke de Long,ueville, an old roué. She was a woman of singular beauty and charm, and among her many admirers was the Duke de la Rochefoucauld, author of the Ma.rimes, who exer cised a marked influence upon her character and developed the political ambition which there after directed her career. She became one of the leading spirits in the Fronde. When her hus band and brothers were arrested and imprisoned by the Queen Regent. Anne of Austria. in Jan uary, 1650, she attempted to bring about a ris ing in Normandy against INlazarin, but failed. She made her escape and went to Stenay, where she induced. Turenne to turn against the Court and compel the release of the prisoners. For a
short time she returned to the social circle that gathered at the Hotel Rambouillet ; but her brothers, Condi. and Conti, having again broken with the .:\lazarin Government, she joined them at Bourges and Bordeaux. The party, however, fell asunder and the Duchess returned to Paris, pardoned through the efforts of her husband. After the death of the latter, in 1663, she lived in seclusion. She retired to the Convent of the Carmelites, was a friend of the Jansenists, and when their persecution was renewed, it was under her roof that the 'great Arnault' found shelter. Consult the admirable studies of Cousin, The 'Youth of Madame do Bonilla-vine, trans. from the French (New York, 1854) ; Madame de Lon pucrille pendant la Fronde (Paris. 1853) : Cock, The Life of Madame de Longuerille Gene vit've de Bourbon) (New York. 1899).