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The Cardinal and the Queen: Sexual and Political Disorders in the Mazarinades

1994; Duke University Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/286688

1527-5493

Jeffrey Merrick,

Historical Art and Culture Studies

When Louis XIII died in 1643, he left his realm in the hands of his five-year-old son, the future Sun King, his Spanish wife, Anne of Austria, and his Italian minister, Cardinal Jules Mazarin. During the minority of Louis XIV, against the background of costly involvement in the Thirty Years' War, resistance to the fiscal exactions of the crown and the progress of royal absolutism precipitated the rebellion known as the Fronde.' This disruptive civil war lasted from the constitutional confrontation between the monarchy and the Parlement of Paris in January of 1648 until the military pacification of Guyenne in July of 1653. In various stages and in various combinations, magistrates, populace, nobles, capital, and provinces joined in opposition to the regency government. In denouncing the detested