Note 113 — Chapter I · 1619 to 1635.
Frederick W. (Frederick William) Ricord translation
Her mother-in-law, Marie de Cambout, niece of Richelieu, whom the cardinal had married to the Duke d’Epernon, as he had married another of his nieces, Mademoiselle de Brézé, to the Duke d’Enghien. Madame d’Epernon was ill-treated by her husband, and died in retreat, in 1691. She was sister of the Abbé du Cambout de Pontchâteau, a celebrated Jansenist. See two portraits of her among the portraits of Mademoiselle.