MAZARIN, JULES

zhül mäzärăNˈ, 1602–61, French statesman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, b. Italy. His original name was Giulio Mazarini. After serving in the papal army and diplomatic service and as nuncio at the French court (1634–36), he entered the service of France and made himself valuable to King Louis XIII's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu, who brought him into the council of state. Although he had received only minor orders and had never been ordained a priest, he was raised to cardinal upon the recommendation of Louis XIII (1641). After the deaths of Richelieu (1642) and Louis XIII (1643), Mazarin was the principal minister of the regent Anne of Austria. The theory that Mazarin was secretly married to the widowed queen has been widely credited. He won favorable terms for France in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), but his attempts to raise money through taxation and his centralizing policy provoked the troubles of the Fronde (1648–53), during which he was several times forced to leave France. After the defeat of the Fronde, Mazarin was securely in control of France. By clever diplomacy he strengthened the crown and negotiated the favorable Peace of the Pyrenees at the end of the war with Spain (1659).

See J. B. Perkins, France under Mazarin (1886); A. Hassall, Mazarin (1903, repr. 1970); W. F. Church, The Impact of Absolutism in France (1969).

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Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648
Book by Derek Croxton; Susquehanna University Press, 1999
Subjects: Alsace (France)--History, France--Foreign Relations--Germany, Germany--Foreign Relations--France, Mazarin, Jules--1602-1661, Peace Of Westphalia (1648)
...1-57591-017-9 (alk. paper) 1. Peace of Westphalia (1648) 2. Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661. 3. Alsace (France/History 4. France-Foreign...AFTER THE DEATH OF RICHE- lieu in 1642 was Cardinal Jules Mazarin. His name sounds French enough, but in fact he was...
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Richelieu and Mazarin
Book by Geoffrey Treasure; Routledge, 1998
...Includes bibliographical references. 1. Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642- Influence. 2. Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661 Influence. 3. Statesmen France Biography. 4. Cardinals France Biography. 5. France Politics and government...
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Includes: The Mazarin Stone; Thor Bridge; The Creeping Man; The Sussex Vampire; The Three Garridebs; The Illustrious Client; The Three Gables; The Blanched Soldier; The Lion's Mane; The Retired Colourman; The Veiled Lodger; Shoscombe Old Place
Book by Arthur Conan Doyle, W. W. Robson; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Detective And Mystery Stories, English, Fiction, Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious Character)--Fiction, Private Investigators--England--Fiction
...3 1 The Mazarin Stone 5...the magazine as "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone". Doyle complained of the lack...sense . Examples will be found in The Mazarin Stone Holmess banter with Count Negretto...
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Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoievsky and Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedekind, Moussorgsky, Cezanne, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Italian Futurists, Various Latter-Day Poets, Painters, Composers, and Dramatists
Book by James Huneker; Charles Scribners Sons, 1915
Subjects: Art, Biography, Literature, Modern--19th Century, Music
...PEACOCKS JOSEPH CONRAD, WALT WHITMAN, JULES LAFORGUE, DOSTOIEVSKY AND TOLSTOY, SCHOENBERG...III. THE BUFFOON OF THE NEW ETERNITIES: JULES LAFORGUE 32...THE BUFFOON OF THE NEW ETERNITIES: JULES LAFORGUE I " Jules Laforgue...
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The Government of M. Thiers: From 8th February, 1871, to 24th May, 1873 - Vol. 1
Book by M. Jules Simon; Charles Scribners Sons, 1879
Subjects: France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940, France--Politics And Government--1870-1940, Thiers, Adolphe--1797-1877
...MAY, 1873. FROM THE FRENCH or M. JULES SIMON. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. New...Early on the morning of the 28th, M. Jules Favre went to Versailles, but Count Moltke...was one oclock a.m. of the 29th when M. Jules Favre rejoined his colleagues. The railway...
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Mazarin and the Fronde
Journal article by Geoffrey Treasure; History Review, 1997
Subjects: Civil war--France, France--History, Mazarin, Jules--Evaluation, Prime ministers--Evaluation
...or, as the French were becoming used to calling him, Jules Mazarin, had then been in France, in royal service, for four...Parlement to over Louis XIIIs win and assumed full powers, Mazarin became premier Ministre. Louis XIV was then four months...
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Answering Questions on the Ascendancy of France 1589-1715: Richard Wilkinson Examines the Examiner's Agenda and Advises Accordingly
Journal article by Richard Wilkinson; History Review, 2004
Subjects: France--Foreign policy, French history, 1589-1789 (House of Bourbon)--Analysis
...Religion and the Revolution of 1789. The financial and military failures of the tactless and unpopular Italian, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, serving the inept queen-regent, Anne of Austria, provoked a revolt by the office-holders, the last people one would...
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Poets into Frenchmen: Timothy Hampton on Literature and National Sentiment in Renaissance France
Journal article by Paul Cohen; Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Literature and the Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France (Book)--Book reviews
...of the cardinal-ministers Richelieu and Mazarin in the early decades of the seventeenth...9 vols. (Paris: Hachette, 1903-1911); Jules Michelet, Histoire de France, 17 vols...Catherine de Medicis, and opponents of Mazarin and Anne of Austria attacked the cardinals...
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Victor Hugo's European Utopia
Journal article by Edward Ousselin; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 34, 2005
Subjects: Hugo, Victor--Works, Poets--Works
...Robb, Graham. Victor Hugo. New York: Norton, 1998. Romains, Jules. Les Hommes de bonne volonte. 27 vols. Paris: Flammarion, 1932-1946...262) <br/ (7) In Jules Romainss Les Hommes de bonne volonte, Hugos irenic expectations...


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Months Past
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 51, February 2001
Subjects: Australia--Business and industry, Cardinals--Influence, Gold industry--History, Nobility--Conduct of life
...1651 One of the reasons for Jules Mazarins unpopularity as first minister...and on Richelieus death in 1642, Mazarin succeeded him. According to the...for resentment, however, was that Mazarin had taken control of access to...
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Behind the Iron Mask
Magazine article by Roger Macdonald; History Today, Vol. 55, November 2005
Subjects: Authors, French--Works, Dumas, Alexandre--Works, French history, 1589-1789 (House of Bourbon), French writers--Works, Les trois mousquetaires (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The Man in the Iron Mask (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...Boislisle, editor of Saint-Simons diaries; Jules Lair, author of the definitive biography...TODAY ARCHIVE Richard Wilkinson, Cardinal Mazarin (April 1996); Robert Knecht, Cardinal...Progress (Feb 1991); Geoffrey Treasure, Mazarin and the Fronde (Sep 1997); Robert Knecht...


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A History of Paris, Era by Era
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 12, 2003
...successors, notably the prime minister-cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, expanded and beautified the area at the center which is now...I, and, perhaps, the decade following - the time evoked by "Jules et Jim," the fine novel by Henri-Pierre Roche that was made...


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Mazarin, Jules
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAZARIN, JULES zhul mazaraN , 1602 61, French statesman...b. Italy. His original name was Giulio Mazarini. After serving in the papal army and diplomatic...Richelieu (1642) and Louis XIII (1643), Mazarin was the principal minister of the regent...
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Louis XIV , King of France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fiscal abuses. But the centralizing policies of Richelieu and Mazarin had prepared the ground for Louis, under whom absolute monarchy...Jean de La Fontaine , and Charles Le Brun . The architect Jules Mansart supervised the building of the lavish palace of...


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