Gaston d’Orleans

Also known as: M. Gaston d’Orleans / Monsieur · Family: French royal family · Role: brother of Louis XIII. · First appears: Chapter 1

Chapter 1

• younger kin: Philippe “‘Unless, indeed,’ resumed the bishop ironically, ‘it be the destiny of your race, that the brothers excluded from the throne should be always princes void of courage and honesty, as was your uncle, M. Gaston d’Orleans, who ten times conspired against his brother Louis XIII.’”
• enemies with Louis XIII. “Your uncle, M. Gaston d’Orleans, who ten times conspired against his brother Louis XIII.”
• siblings with Louis XIII. “as was your uncle, M. Gaston d’Orleans, who ten times conspired against his brother Louis XIII.”

Chapter 9

• siblings with Philippe “In keeping you near him, as Monsieur has been kept--Monsieur, your younger brother--the king reserved to himself the right of being legitimate sovereign.”

Chapter 23

• siblings with Louis XIV “I have only one brother--and that is Monsieur.”

Chapter 60

• married with Henrietta “The consent of Monsieur, my husband.”
• protégé: Chevalier de Lorraine “You, who do him the honor to protect him”

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