Mme. Coquenard

Also known as: Madame Coquenard / the duchess / the procurator’s wife · Family: Civilian · Role: Porthos’s mistress · First appears: Chapter 25

At chapter 25, Mme. Coquenard is revealed as Porthos’s supposed duchess: the wife of a procurator of the Châtelet, at least fifty, and still jealous. Though Porthos expects her as one of the great ladies of the court, she refuses to send him money for his expenses.

By chapter 29, she reveals that she and Porthos are cousins and offers future financial help. Their marriage contract with M. Coquenard gives everything to the survivor, and she and Porthos reconcile “For life.” In chapter 32, she agrees to give Porthos eight hundred livres and provide the horse and mule carrying him and Mousqueton; in chapter 34, she promises a private meeting with Porthos to repair the equipment bargain while M. Coquenard visits the Duc de Chaulnes.

In 1628, after Porthos left the service, he married Mme. Coquenard during the following year, after M. Coquenard’s death.

Relationship record

Life events

• Porthos’s supposed duchess is revealed as Madame Coquenard, an attorney’s wife.(Chapter25 · 📍 Rue aux Ours)
  • With: Porthos
  • “Why, she is the old wife of a procurator* of the Châtelet, monsieur, named Madame Coquenard”
• Madame Coquenard refuses to send Porthos money for his expenses.(Chapter25)
  • With: Porthos
  • “she would not send him a denier.”
• Mme. Coquenard offers Porthos future financial assistance.(Chapter29)
  • With: Porthos
  • “if in the time to come you should find yourself in a similar situation, you have but to apply to me.”
• Mme. Coquenard reveals that their marriage contract gives the survivor everything.(Chapter29 · 📍 cloister St. Magloire)
  • With: Porthos
  • “Fortunately, by our marriage contract, the survivor takes everything.”
• Porthos and Mme. Coquenard reconcile.(Chapter29 · 📍 cloister St. Magloire)
  • With: Porthos
  • “For life”
• Mme. Coquenard agrees to give Porthos eight hundred livres and provide mounts for Porthos and Mousqueton.(Chapter32)
  • With: Porthos Mousqueton
  • “the result of the sitting was that the procurator’s wife should give eight hundred livres in money, and should furnish the horse and the mule which should have the honor of carrying Porthos and Mousqueton to glory.”
• Mme. Coquenard promises Porthos a private meeting to repair the equipment bargain.(Chapter34 · 📍 cloister of St. Magloire)
  • With: Porthos M. Coquenard Duc de Chaulnes
  • “This evening M. Coquenard is going to the house of the Duc de Chaulnes, who has sent for him. It is for a consultation, which will last three hours at least. Come! We shall be alone, and can make up our accounts.”
• 1628 · Porthos left the service and married Mme. Coquenard.(Chapter67)
  • With: Porthos
  • “Porthos left the service, and in the course of the following year married Mme. Coquenard;”

Chapter 25

• with Porthos (Madame Coquenard is Porthos’s mistress, whom he calls his duchess.) “Why, she is the old wife of a procurator* of the Châtelet, monsieur, named Madame Coquenard, who, although she is at least fifty, still gives herself jealous airs.”
• courtship with Porthos (Porthos presents Madame Coquenard as his mistress or duchess.) “as he every moment expected his mistress, who was one of the greatest ladies in the court,”

Chapter 29

• cousins with Porthos “You are the son of my aunt, consequently my cousin; you come from Noyon, in Picardy; you have several lawsuits and no attorney.”
• married with M. Coquenard “Fortunately, by our marriage contract, the survivor takes everything.”

Chapter 32

• courtship with Porthos “the heart, or perhaps the stomach, of her lover would bring him before his time.”
• protégé: Porthos “the result of the sitting was that the procurator’s wife should give eight hundred livres in money, and should furnish the horse and the mule which should have the honor of carrying Porthos and Mousqueton to glory.”

Chapter 34

• courtship with Porthos “Porthos went away after having appointed a meeting with the procurator’s wife in the cloister of St. Magloire.”
• married with M. Coquenard “This evening M. Coquenard is going to the house of the Duc de Chaulnes, who has sent for him. It is for a consultation, which will last three hours at least. Come! We shall be alone, and can make up our accounts.”

Chapter 40

• admired: Porthos “The procurator’s wife saw him pass in his new uniform and on his fine horse. She loved Porthos too dearly to allow him to part thus; she made him a sign to dismount and come to her.”
• married with M. Coquenard “As to Mme. Coquenard, she could not restrain her tears; but no evil impressions were taken from her grief as she was known to be very much attached to her relatives, about whom she was constantly having serious disputes with her husband.”

Chapter 67

• married with Porthos “During our expedition to Béthune the husband of my duchess died; so, my dear, the coffer of the defunct holding out its arms to me, I shall marry the widow.”

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