Mazarin by Arthur HASSALL (1853 - 1930)
Genre(s): War & Military
Read by: Pamela Nagami in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Ch. 1: The Early Years of Mazarin's Ministry, 1643-1646
00:44:29 - 02 - Ch. 2: Mazarin's Connection with the Rebellions in Naples and England, 1643-1649
01:20:36 - 03 - Ch. 3: The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
01:48:45 - 04 - Ch. 4: The Parliamentary Fronde, 1648-1649
02:31:23 - 05 - Ch. 5: The Early Years of the New Fronde, 1649-1651
03:16:41 - 06 - Ch. 6: The Close of the Fronde, 1651-1653
03:59:50 - 07 - Ch. 7: The Spanish War and the English Alliance, 1648-1659
04:41:25 - 08 - Ch. 8: The League of the Rhine and the Peace of the Pyrenees, 1658-1659
05:30:28 - 09 - Ch. 9: Mazarin's Death, Character, and Work
Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Though a cardinal, he was not a priest and was probably secretly married to the Queen-Mother, Anne of Austria. Together they ruled France, facing the great rebellion known as the Fronde, and with the help of the military genius of Turenne, prevailed over the armies of Spain, Austria, and the traitorous Grand Condé. Arthur Hassall writes of Mazarin that by the time of his death in 1661 he had, through 'patience, perseverance, and sagacity,' fulfilled Richelieu's foreign policy and made the twenty-one year-old Louis XIV the absolute monarch of Europe's greatest power. (Pamela Nagami)
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