Chevreuse, Marie

DE ROHAN-MONTBAZON, DUCHESSE DE, a French lady celebrated for her wit, beauty, and political and amatory intrigues, B. 1600. At 17, she married Charles d'Albret, Duc de Luynes and Grand Constable of France. She, after his death, became the wife of Claude de Lorraine, Duc de Chevre use, and as the friend and confidante of the queen, Anne of Austria, incurred the enmity of Cardinal Richelieu, who exiled her from the country. On the acce ion of Anne to the regency, the duche returned to France, when her old spirit of intrigue again broke out, involving her again in disgrace and a second exile. After a desultory afterlife of plotting and mischief-making, she D. in 1679.