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The story of Cinq-Mars is sufficiently dramatic and tragic to hâve been the subject of a famous novel by Alfred de Vigny. Cinq-Mars was a fairly insignificant young nobleman whom the minister. Cardinal Richelieu, favored and helped to greatness in the hope through him the better to control Louis XIII. At the âge of nineteen Cinq-Mars had become one of the most important men in the kingdom. Either still f urther to forward his ambitions aspirations and supplant Richelieu or because he honestly felt he could not serve two masters, Cinq-Mars tumed against Richelieu and conspired against him by planning a secret treaty with Spain. The king's brother, Gaston, was involved in this conspiracy, and the king was not utterly foreign to it. It was, however, discovered by Richelieu. The king and Gaston, in a cowardly way, aban> doned Cinq-Mars, who, with his friend de Thou, guilty only of not having denounced the plot, was made a scapegoat for the others. They were both beheaded in 1642. Alfred de Vigny 's novel is an interesting though inaccurate narrative of the whole affair. There is a historical study of the case, La Conjuration de Cinq- Mars ^ by Mlle. J. P. Basserie.

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