But he had a more serious phase, for when he was not a gambler he was an Expeller of Demons, a most popular accomplishment.
"It Happened in Egypt"
C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson
Nevertheless, I was not offended with the Parliament, the bulk of whom I knew to be my friends, whose sole aim was to effectually demolish Mazarin, and I acquiesced in the solid satisfaction which I had in being considered in the world as the Expeller of Mazarin, whom everybody hated, and the deliverer of the Princes, who were as much their darlings.
"The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete"
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
Thus Monsieur de Launoy, nicknamed the "Expeller of Saints," made cruel war upon the saints surreptitiously smuggled into the Church.
"Catherine de' Medici"
Honore de Balzac