Cinq-Mars (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alfred de Vigny
- First Published: 1826
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Henri d’Effiat, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Marie de Gonzaga, François August de Thou
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Seventeenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Catholics or Catholic Church, Battles, Royal courts or courtiers, Cardinals
- Locales: France
The Story:
One June day in 1639, at the chateau of Chaumont in Touraine, young Henri d’Effiat, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, took leave of his family and set out, at the request of Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII’s chief minister, to join the king’s forces at the siege of Perpignan. Shortly after he left, his mother’s guest, the Marshal Bassompierre, was placed under arrest at Richelieu’s order and sent in chains toward Paris and the Bastille. Young Cinq-Mars tried to release the marshal, but the haughty old soldier refused to be rescued. As if his flouting of the king’s...
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