Madame de Chevreuse

Also known as: the intimate friend and confidante of the queen · Family: French court · Role: confidante · First appears: Chapter 53

Life events

Aramis reveals that Madame de Chevreuse provided the secret he has preserved for fifteen years.(Chapter53)
- With: Aramis
- “Through Madame de Chevreuse, the intimate friend and confidante of the queen.”

with Aramis (Aramis says he learned the secret through Madame de Chevreuse.) “Through Madame de Chevreuse, the intimate friend and confidante of the queen.”

friends with Anne of Austria (Madame de Chevreuse is identified as the former friend Anne remembers.) “In the good times past, when her youthful mind nursed projects that were, ultimately, invariably successful, she had by her side, to stimulate her ambition and her love, a friend of her own sex, more eager, more ambitious than herself,--a friend who had loved her, a rare circumstance at courts, and whom some petty considerations had removed from her forever. But for many years past--except Madame de Motteville, and La Molena, her Spanish nurse, a confidante in her character of countrywoman and woman too--who could boast of having given good advice to the queen? Who, too, among all the youthful heads there, could recall the past for her,--that past in which alone she lived? Anne of Austria remembered Madame de Chevreuse”

Extracted from the original text of Ten Years Later. Made with Rho MD.