User:Linda.floren/sandbox/Secret history of the French court

by Victor Cousin

Contents

• Dedication
• Title
• Preface
• First Part: Madame de Chevreuse and Richelieu
  • Chapter I
    Character and personal appearance of Madame de Chevreuse.-Her birth and her first and second marriages.-Intimate friendship with Anne of Austria.-Count Holland.-Prince de Chalais-First Exile.-Charles IV. Duke of Lorraine.-Return to France.-Richelieu and Châteauneuf.-Madame de Chevreuse banished again to Touraine.-Affairs of 1637.-Second Exile; flight to Spain
  • Chapter II
    Madame de Chevreuse in Spain, and in England.-Long negotiation with Richelieu to return to France.-Failure of the negotiation.-Marie de Medicis and the Duke d'Épernon.-Madame de Chevreuse in Flanders.-Conspiracy and rebellion of Count de Soissons.-Affair of Cinq-Mars.-Death of Richelieu and of Louis XIII.-Royal declaration of the 20th of April, 1643, condemning Madame de Chevreuse to a perpetual exile.-Her recall by the new regent
• Second Part: Madame de Chevreuse and Mazarin
  • Chapter III
    Madame de Chevreuse returns to the Court and to Paris.-New Arrangements of the Queen.-Anne of Austria and Mazarin.-Efforts of Madame de Chevreuse in favor of the former Party of the Queen and against the Policy and the Partisans of Richelieu.-Her Solicitations in behalf of Châteauneuf, the Vendômes, and La Rochefoucauld.-Her Home and Foreign Policy.-Madame de Chevreuse the true Chief of the Party of the Importants.-Defeated in her efforts to gain the Queen, she resolves to have recourse to other means.-A Crisis becomes inevitable; it occurs on the occasion of the Quarrel between Madame de Montbazon and Madame de Longueville
  • Chapter IV
    Conspiracy of Madame de Chevreuse and Beaufort against Mazarin.-La Rochefoucauld and Retz deny this Conspiracy.-Plan and Details of the whole Affair, as gathered from the Carnets and Letters of the Cardinal and the Memoirs of Henri de Campion