A thin, saturnine older aristocrat, encountered by our heroes during Le Peril du Cardinal.
The Duke is said to be visiting Paris this month, a rare enough thing since the Cardinal's rise to power. The two men detest one another both personally and politically, and the Duke was once heard to denounce the Cardinal as a 'bloody-minded tyrant determined to play the puppet-master to our Sovereign.'
Montauban was stripped of all government posts, and rumour has it that the Cardinal is set on seizing his estates, titles, and other possessions as well, given half a chance.
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