Chapter 17: Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌⁠The captive who was the source of so much alarm to the cardinal and whose means of escape disturbed the repose of the whole court, was wholly unconscious of the terror he caused at the Palais Royal.

He had found himself so strictly guarded that he soon perceived the fruitlessness of any attempt at escape. His vengeance, therefore, consisted in coining curses on the head of Mazarin; he even tried to