French Court — Minor Figures
34 figures from Twenty Years After who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
De Tréville
officer · first appears Chapter 2
- Chapter 2 · friends with Anne of Austria “De Tréville knows him and esteems him very highly, and De Tréville, as you know, is one of the queen’s greatest friends.”
- Chapter 2 · with D’Artagnan “De Tréville knows him and esteems him very highly.”
Monsieur des Essarts
nobleman · first appears Chapter 4
- Chapter 11 · with D’Artagnan “that I once sold to Monsieur des Essarts”
Mancini
nephew of Mazarin · first appears Chapter 4
- Chapter 4 · enemies with Louis XIV “Now Mancini was a nephew of Mazarin’s and was as much hated by Louis as the cardinal himself”
- Chapter 4 · elder kin: Mazarin “Now Mancini was a nephew of Mazarin’s”
Henrietta of England
princess · first appears Chapter 88
- Chapter 88 · siblings with Anne of Austria “the consort of Madame Henrietta, your sister and your guest”
- Chapter 88 · married with Charles I “brother-in-law of the late king, your husband, the consort of Madame Henrietta”
Chancellor Sequier
chancellor · first appears Chapter 48
- Chapter 48 · enemies with Anne of Austria “The Chancellor Sequier, who twenty years previously had persecuted her so ruthlessly, stood before her, relating how his carriage had been smashed”
- Chapter 48 · siblings with Bishop of Meaux “happily he had time to reach a closet hidden behind tapestry, in which he was secreted by an old woman, together with his brother, the Bishop of Meaux.”
Duchess de Chevreuse
noblewoman · first appears Chapter 41
- Chapter 41 · protégé: Raoul Bragelonne “she had learned of the return of her youthful protégé, and also the manner he had conducted himself on the field, and she added that she should be very glad to offer him her congratulations.”
- Chapter 81 · with Anne of Austria “the Duchess de Chevreuse, whom you suffered to be exiled”
Laporte
attendant · first appears Chapter 4
- Chapter 4 · with Buckingham “The other was that which Laporte had placed in the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, warning him that he was about to be assassinated”
- Chapter 52 · employer: Anne of Austria “‘Laporte,’ said the queen, ‘it is time for his majesty to go to bed.’”
Madame de Bregy
lady-in-waiting · first appears Chapter 52
- Chapter 52 · employer: Anne of Austria “Her ladies—that is to say Madame de Bregy, Mademoiselle de Beaumont, Madame de Motteville, and Socratine, her sister, so called on account of her sense—had just brought into her dressing-room the remains of the dinner”