Madame de Chevreuse

Also known as: Duchesse de Chevreuse / Mme. de Chevreuse / the exiled duchess · Family: French court · Role: lady · First appears: Chapter 2

Life events

Cardinal de Richelieu reveals that Bonacieux’s wife met the Duchesse de Chevreuse and Duke of Buckingham.(Chapter14)
- With: Richelieu M. Bonacieux Buckingham
- “She went to meet the Duchesse de Chevreuse and the Duke of Buckingham.”
Comte de Rochefort reports that the duchess and duke have already departed.(Chapter14 · 📍 Tours and Boulogne)
- With: Comte de Rochefort Buckingham
- “The duchess is at Tours, and the duke at Boulogne.”
Mme. de Chevreuse secretly returns to Paris and evades the police.(Chapter15 · 📍 Paris)
- “who, though exiled to Tours and believed to be in that city, had come to Paris, remained there five days, and outwitted the police”
Richelieu reveals that Anne of Austria renewed a secret correspondence with Mme. de Chevreuse.(Chapter15)
- With: Anne of Austria Richelieu
- “the queen had renewed with her one of those mysterious correspondences which at that time was named a _cabal;”

cousins with Madame de Bois-Tracy “Madame de Bois-Tracy’s, the cousin of Madame de Chevreuse”

with Aramis (interaction) “Then I must go to the Rue St. Honoré in order to purchase some rouge for Madame de Chevreuse.”

courtship with Holland (The text explicitly states mutual love.) “Holland loved her, and she responded to his love.”

enemies with Richelieu (The cardinal treats her as a conspiratorial opponent.) “You have conspired with your wife, with Madame de Chevreuse, and with my Lord Duke of Buckingham.”
with Richelieu (The cardinal orders the houses associated with the concealed duchess and duke to be searched.) “‘You, monseigneur?’ ‘Yes; or at least I guess. They were, one in the Rue de Vaugirard, No. 25; the other in the Rue de la Harpe, No. 75.’ ‘Does your Eminence command that they both be instantly arrested?’ ‘It will be too late; they will be gone.’ ‘But still, we can make sure that they are so.’ ‘Take ten men of my Guardsmen, and search the two houses thoroughly.’”

friends with Anne of Austria “One of the grand causes of this prejudice was the friendship of Anne of Austria for Mme. de Chevreuse.”

with Anne of Austria (The king's accusation of conspiracy) “To conspire against my honor with Madame de Chevreuse, Madame de Longueville, and the Condés.”

with Mme. Bonacieux (interaction) “MY DEAR CHILD, Hold yourself ready. Our friend will see you soon, and he will only see you to release you from that imprisonment in which your safety required you should be concealed. Prepare, then, for your departure, and never despair of us.”

Extracted from the original text of The Three Musketeers. Made with Rho MD.