Importants

There are of course also Very Importants who are female.

Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011

There are of course also Very Importants who are female.

Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011

The cabal of "The Importants" was put to flight and dispersed, and it was reported over all the kingdom that they had made an attempt against the Cardinal's life, which I do not believe, because I never saw anything in confirmation of it, though many of the domestics of the family of Vendome were a long time in prison upon this account.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

M. de Beaufort knew little of affairs of moment but by hearsay and by what he had learned in the cabal of "The Importants," of whose jargon he had retained some smattering, which, together with some expressions he had perfectly acquired from Madame de Vendome, formed a language that would have puzzled a Cato.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

I dined almost every day with Cardinal Mazarin, who liked me the better because I refused to engage myself in the cabal called "The Importants," though many of the members were my dearest friends.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

"The Importants" -- so that they were not quick to make room for him, rendered his progress so slow that, my name being called and everybody hustling me forward, I came face to face with the Queen almost at the moment that he did.

In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891

Within a month the heads of the Importants -- so, I have said, the Bishop's party were christened -- were in prison or exiled or purchased; and all France knew that it lay in a master's hand -- knew that the mantle of Richelieu, with a double portion of the royal favour, had fallen on Mazarin's shoulders.

In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891

She was "one of those personages, however, who made the most noise" at the courts of Louis the Thirteenth and Anne of Austria, as we are told by Madame de Motteville, and as we have already seen by the prominent political part she played in the factions of the Importants and the Fronde.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

But if Mazarin had taken care to win over successively those chiefs of the Importants and the Frondeurs in whom his experienced eye had recognised as sincerely disposed to a loyal submission, he had this time taken care not to allow himself to be betrayed by false appearances, and did not fail to strike at, or at least banish from Paris, those whom he despaired of acquiring.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

That same day, Mazarin could understand that a new era had arisen for him, more brilliant and more secure than that of 1643, after the defeat of the _Importants_, and that that sterile and sanguinary halt upon the road of reform and the civilising march of monarchy known in history under the name of the Fronde was at last and for ever terminated.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861