Thus then, as before stated, a hollow peace was patched up between the unequal rivals; and Madame de Verneuil at length found herself in possession of a folding-seat in the Queen's reception room; while her Coadjutress triumphantly took her place among the noblest ladies of the land; but scarcely had this result been accomplished, when Henry, profiting by so unhoped-for an opportunity of gratifying the vanity of the favourite, assigned to her a suite of apartments in the Louvre immediately above those of the Queen, and little, if at all, inferior to them in magnificence.
"The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Julia Pardoe
He had an able Coadjutress in his female ally.
"Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee"
John Esten Cooke