And when Louis had seen Concini despatched by his own agents in the court of the Louvre, and the arrest, trial, and execution of Eleonora (upon the charge of sorcery), he completed the work by banishing his mother, only to fall immediately into the power of Albert de Luynes, himself an intriguing parasite, who intended to play the very same role as the pair he had overthrown.
The clever Eleonora, when arraigned on the charge of sorcery, replied, "The only magic I have used is that of a strong mind over a weak one." Albert de Luynes's head was never carried about Paris on a pike, as was hers.

But he experimented with the same kind of magic.
This wretched period after the death of the great Henry had occupied twelve years.

But in 1622 Cardinal Richelieu took his seat among the advisers of the king.

The true man had been found.

King, nobles, people of all ranks and religions, realized that a master had appeared in the land; a master inscrutable in his purposes, and clothed with a mysterious power.
The foundations of this man's policy lay deep, out of sight of all save his own far-reaching intelligence.