French Court — Minor Figures

39 figures from The Three Musketeers who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Duc d’Orléans

royal prince · first appears Chapter 22

Chapter 22 · with Anne of Austria “and his Highness Monsieur with the queen.”
Chapter 41 · with D’Artagnan “Monsieur is about to ask for some men of good will for a dangerous mission, but one which will do honor to those who shall accomplish it; and I made you a sign in order that you might hold yourself in readiness.”

count · first appears Chapter 15

Chapter 15 · with Athos “Monsieur Athos, who, I will confide it to your Majesty, is really a man of the highest quality, did me the honor after having dined with me to be conversing in the saloon of my hôtel, with the Duc de la Trémouille and the Comte de Châlus, who happened to be there.”
Chapter 15 · with M. de la Trémouille “with the Duc de la Trémouille and the Comte de Châlus, who happened to be there.”

named person · first appears Chapter 2

Chapter 2 · with Richelieu “has, with the help of this spy and thanks to this correspondence, Chalais’s throat cut”

assassin · first appears Chapter 44

Chapter 44 · with Richelieu “such a woman, who would place the knife of Jacques Clément or of Ravaillac in the hands of a fanatic, would save France.”

king · first appears Chapter 51

Chapter 51 · with Richelieu “recalling the saying of Louis XI., his political predecessor, as he himself was the predecessor of Robespierre”

tire-woman of the queen · first appears Chapter 14

Chapter 14 · admired: Richelieu “Madame de Lannoy, who is devoted to your Eminence, as you know.”
Chapter 14 · with Richelieu “Madame de Lannoy, who is devoted to your Eminence, as you know.”

queen-mother · first appears Chapter 16

Chapter 16 · enemies with Richelieu “Anne of Austria, deprived of the confidence of her husband, pursued by the hatred of the cardinal, who could not pardon her for having repulsed a more tender feeling, having before her eyes the example of the queen-mother whom that hatred had tormented all her life—though Marie de Médicis, if the memoirs of the time are to be believed, had begun by according to the cardinal that sentiment which Anne of Austria always refused him”

court lady · first appears Chapter 61

Chapter 61 · courtship with Richelieu “relating the amours of the minister with Mme. d’Aiguillon, Marion de Lorme, and several other gay women.”

lady · first appears Chapter 2

Chapter 2 · elder kin: Richelieu “Some sang ballads about Mme. d’Aguillon, his mistress, and Mme. Cambalet, his niece;”