Editing Marie de' Medici (section)

===Revolt of 1619 and return from exile===
In the night of 21–22 February 1619, the 43-year-old Queen Mother escaped from her prison in Blois with a rope ladder and by scaling a wall of 40 m. Gentlemen took her across the Pont de Blois and riders sent by the [[Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette|Duc d'Épernon]] escorted Marie in his coach. She took refuge in the [[Château d'Angoulême]] and provoked an uprising against her son the King, the so-called "war of mother and son" (''guerre de la mère et du fils'').

A first treaty, the [[Treaty of Angoulême]], negotiated by Richelieu, calmed the conflict. However, the Queen Mother was not satisfied and relaunched the war by rallying the great nobles of the Kingdom to her cause ("second war of mother and son"). The noble coalition was quickly defeated at the [[Battle of Ponts-de-Cé]] (7 August 1620) by Louis XIII, who forgave his mother and the princes.

Aware that he could not avoid the formation of plots as long as his mother remained in exile, the King accepted her return to court. She then returned to Paris, where she worked on the construction of her [[Luxembourg Palace]]. After the death of the Duc de Luynes in December 1621, she gradually made her political comeback. Richelieu played an important role in her reconciliation with the king and even managed to bring the queen mother back to the ''Conseil du Roi''.