Cabale des Importants

[2] The aim of this plot was to remove Cardinal Mazarin from power, as he was considered to be too hostile to the interests of that nobility, and to also sign a separate peace with Spain.

The new King Louis XIV was a minor, and the regency was entrusted to his mother Anne of Austria, who was supported by Cardinal Mazarin.

The cabal aims, on the one hand, to remove Anne of Austria from her new prime minister, Mazarin, who was considered too hostile to the nobility and, on the other, force a signature on a separate peace with Philip IV of Spain.

[3] François de Vendôme was furious and planned to have Mazarin assassinated, then replace him with a close friend, Augustin Potier, Bishop of Beauvais.

Beaufort was arrested on 2 September 1643 and imprisoned at the dungeon of the Château de Vincennes, where he remained in captivity for five years.