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they say Mazarino is married to the queen

It's been 5 years Rochefort been imprisoned

prisoners upon entering the Bastille are no more men, rather turned into numbers

D'Artagnan looking for prisoner 256 in the Bastille: Rochefort

"poets" people get in palace of Rambouillet


Mazarino: I was once a poet

Mazarino: they will pay

Fronda is the name they give to their party

D'Artagnan, nearly 39, short and thin, black beard, gray hair

People preparing for barricades

Mazarino was more inclined to music than to literature

Mazarino: bring me here D'Artagnan; give me a musketeer gear, help me dressing it up

Not enough forces to face the revolt

Comminges head of the guards ordered a hanging

Sad people didn't cheer the king;

"down with Mazarino!"

Against the new taxes

Broussel councillor cheered

president Blancmesnil cheered

11th of January


The Council met, the authority of the king is kept. Parliament summoned for the next day


Cardinal Retz: "(king's) runious edicts"

11th of January

The Queen attends a Notre-Dame mass, like on every Saturday. More than 200 women call for justice; the Queen didn't listen.

Son of DÉmery almost strangled; he should throw up the gold he devoured

Enter corageous Mateus Molé, also attacked

D'Emery , hated by the people, son of a banker of Lion, who Richelieu presented to king Louis XIII

D'Emery showed up pale because son almost got assassinated

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9th of January

Magistrates meet with Mazarino; "I'll see to it"

7th January, Paris mutiny

Due to the new tax, propriators, merchants and commerce people; they sent a delegation to Duke D'Orleans, who would tell the Queen

It's been long people murmuring.

It wasn't prudent, Mazarino declaring himself against the magistrates

Mazarino's meditations: burdened with taxes all the people had was their souls

Mazarino's ring was blessed by Palais-Royal chappell

Mazarino's thoughts: they should be cheering parliament and Lord Beaufort; they hated Richelieu (fired several times) while alive, but praised him after death; the Queen won't fire me. If only I was not a foreigner, if I was French and noble...

People charge him with words like "foreigner! Italian!". People feel overloaded with taxes.

Mazarino's thoughts: instead, you should be aware of those with Parisan accent.

A debilitated France; people armed; a city coalition against the minister; rebellion in the streets; enemies inside France's borders;

NOTES AND QUOTES


A purple-clad solitary thinker. the ghost of Cardinal Richelieu in his office. Feeling weak. He's cardinal Mazarino