He made a boast to the Secretary of State Villeroy that he had unravelled all his secret plots against the Netherlands.

He declared it to be understood in France, since the King's death, by the dominant and Jesuitical party that the crown depended temporally as well as spiritually on the good pleasure of the Pope.
No doubt he was perfectly right in many of his opinions.

No ruler or statesman in France worthy of the name would hesitate, in the impending religious conflict throughout Europe and especially in Germany, to maintain for the kingdom that all controlling position which was its splendid privilege.

But to preach this to Mary de' Medici was waste of breath.

She was governed by the Concini's, and the Concini's were governed by Spain.