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  • But Richelieu's spy service discovered the plan and Cinq-Mars was arrested.

    For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

  • J.M. Cinq-Mars is currently lost in the wilds of Western Massachusetts, gamely serving customers while biting my tongue.

    COSMOS • by J.M. Cinq-Mars 2009

  • The book describes in gruesome detail the botched executions in 1642 of Cinq-Mars and an accomplice by a substitute executioner: When Cinq-Mars's head failed to separate from the body, the executioner "grabbed it by the hair and sawed off."

    For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

  • Possessing evidence that the king himself knew of Cinq-Mars's intentions, Richelieu demanded that Louis promise to embrace no more favorites and dismiss de Treville, the captain of the king's musketeers, a Cinq-Mars loyalist.

    For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

  • COSMOS • by J.M. Cinq-Mars | Every Day Fiction - The once a day flash fiction magazine.

    COSMOS • by J.M. Cinq-Mars 2009

  • The final one was that of the king's favorite, the Marquis de Cinq-Mars, a vain and effeminate youth who had been installed by Richelieu himself for Louis's amusement.

    For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

  • But Cinq-Mars insisted on eating well in the field, and I soon realized that he is the Jamie Oliver of Yukon archaeology.

    The Pleasures of the Field 2009

  • Except Denzil was very intelligent and manipulative and Cinq-Mars was probably very much in over his head.

    November 25th, 2006 handworn 2006

  • In The Element of Fire, Denzil was very loosely based on Cinq-Mars, who was one of Louis XIII's favorites and ended up being executed for treason.

    November 25th, 2006 handworn 2006

  • Cinq-Mars, a retired former curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, believes the answers lie in the lost land of Beringia.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

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