Secret history of the French court under Richelieu and Mazarin; or, Life and time of Madame de Chevreuse

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Chapter I

Character and personal appearance of Madame de Chevreuse, — Her birth and her first and second marriages. — Intimate friendship with Anne of Austria. — Count Holland.— Prince de Chalais — First Exile. — Charles IV. Duke of Lorraine.— Keturn to France. — Richelieu and Chateauneuf. — Madame de Chevreuse banished again to Touraine. — Affairs of 1637. — Second Exile ; flight to Spain, . . 1

Chapter II

Madame de Chevreuse in Spain, and in England.— Long negotiation with Eichelieu to return to France. — Failure of the negotiation.— Marie de Medicis and the Duke d'ifipernon. — Madame de Chevreuse in Flanders. — Conspiracy and rebellion of Count de Soissons. — Affair of Cinq-Mars.— Death of Richelieu and of Louis XIII. — Eoyal declaration of the 20th of April, 1643, condemning Madame de Chevreuse to a perpetual exile, — Her recall by the new regent, 46

SECOND PART.

MADAME DE CHEVREUSE AND MAZARIN.

Chapter III

Madame de Chevreuse returns to the Court and to Paris. — New Arrangements of the Queen. — Anne of Austria and Mazarin. — Efforts of Madame de Chevreuse in favor of the former Party of the Queen and against the Policy and the Partisans of Richelieu. — Her Solicitations in behalf of Chateauneuf, the Vendomes, and La Rochefoucauld. — Her Home and Foreign Policy. — Madame de Chev-

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reuse the true Chief of the Party of the Importants.— Defeated in her eflforts to gain the Queen, she resolves to have recourse to other means. — A Crisis becomes inevitable ; it occurs on the occasion of the Quarrel between Madame de Montbazon and Madame de Longueville, . . . . .84

CHAPTER lY.

Conspiracy of Madame de Chevreuse and Beaufort against Mazariu. — La Eochefouoauld and Eetz deny this Conspiracy. — Plan and Details of the whole Affair, as gathered from the Carnetg and Letters of the Cardinal and the Memoirs of Henri de Campion, ........ 125

MADAME DE CHEVEEUSE;

OR,

SECRET HISTORY OF THE FREN"CH COURT UNDER RICHELIEU AND MAZARIN.