Duchesse de Chevreuse
Also known as: the duchesse / the old duchesse · First appears: Chapter 36
Life events
- Duchesse de Chevreuse predicts Fouquet’s disgrace after the king’s journey to Nantes.(Chapter36)
- Duchesse de Chevreuse reveals Anne of Austria now opposes Fouquet because he knew a secret.(Chapter36)
- With: Colbert Anne of Austria Fouquet
- “the queen-mother has conceived a bitter hatred for all those who have participated, in one fashion or another, in the discovery of this secret, and M. Fouquet I believe is one of these.”
- Duchesse de Chevreuse reveals Anne of Austria has ordered Aramis pursued and killed.(Chapter36 · 📍 Belle-Ile-en-Mer)
- With: Colbert Anne of Austria Aramis
- “An order is given for it.”
- M. Colbert decides to besiege Belle-Isle and capture Aramis.(Chapter36 · 📍 Belle-Ile-en-Mer)
- Duchesse de Chevreuse and M. Colbert form an alliance against Aramis.(Chapter36)
Chapter 36
- enemies with Fouquet (The duchesse promotes Fouquet’s downfall.) “She taught Colbert, who, poor man! was ignorant of the fact, how great a minister he was, and how Fouquet would soon become a cipher.”
- friends with Anne of Austria (The duchesse is explicitly described as an old friend of the queen-mother.) “this great lady, of this old friend of the queen-mother.”
- with Colbert (They form a political alliance.) “dating from this instant, we have formed a solid alliance, that is, you and I, and that I am absolutely at your service.”
- with Madame Vanel (The duchesse escorts Madame Vanel and leaves her at her husband’s house.) “Madame de Chevreuse set down Madame Vanel at her husband’s house”
- enemies with Aramis “the last friend of Fouquet, the last defender of Belle-Isle, the former friend of Marie Michon, the new foe of the old duchesse.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Man in the Iron Mask. Made with Rho MD.