Guitant

Family: royal guards · Role: captain · First appears: Chapter 2

Life events

Mazarin learns that widespread unrest is coalescing into a movement called the Fronde.(Chapter2 · 📍 Rue Saint Denis)
- With: Mazarin Comminges
- “The appearance of the town denoted the greatest agitation.”
Guitant refuses to obey commands unless they come from Anne of Austria.(Chapter2 · 📍 Quinze-Vingts)
- With: Mazarin
- “but that command must come from the queen herself.”
Mazarin identifies Comte de Rochefort as a former Richelieu agent who can reveal past intrigues.(Chapter2 · 📍 Palais Royal)
- With: Mazarin Comte de Rochefort Richelieu
- “The Comte de Rochefort.”
Duc de Beaufort was arrested and sent to Vincennes under Guitant’s charge.(Chapter17 · 📍 Vincennes)
- With: Duc de Beaufort Mazarin
- “eventually, as he was stupid enough to be vexed at this change of position, the queen had had him arrested and sent to Vincennes in charge of Guitant”

friends with Mazarin “‘My dear friend,’ said the cardinal, leaning, as they walked through the garden, on his friend’s arm”
employer: Anne of Austria “I have been a captain in the queen’s guards for twenty years”
younger kin: Comminges (Villequier identifies Comminges as Guitant’s nephew.) “’Sdeath! I would die willingly for the king, but supposing I happened to be killed on account of Mazarin, as your nephew came near being to-day, there could be nothing in Paradise, however well placed I might be there, that could console me for it.”
with D’Artagnan (Guitant describes D’Artagnan as an old acquaintance.) “he’s an old acquaintance.”

prisoner: Duc de Beaufort “the queen had had him arrested and sent to Vincennes in charge of Guitant”
ward: Duc de Beaufort (Guitant was placed in charge of the captive.) “the queen had had him arrested and sent to Vincennes in charge of Guitant”

younger kin: Comminges “the regiment of the queen’s guards, commanded by Guitant, under whom was his nephew Comminges”

with Anne of Austria (Anne summons Guitant in connection with arresting the maréchal.) “I have had greater men than you arrested—Guitant!”

Extracted from the original text of Twenty Years After. Made with Rho MD.