| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover -- 1652: The Cardinal, the Prince, and the Crisis of the Fronde -- Copyright -- Dediction -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Dramatis Personae in 1652 -- The Royal Family -- The Court -- The Ministers -- Military commanders initially supporting Mazarin -- Mazarin's 'allies' (less than committed fidèles) -- Mazarin's agents, confidants, and fidèles -- Condé's family, allies, and fidèles -- The Old Fronde and supporters of the cardinal de Retz -- The Parlementaires -- Outside France -- Bourbon Family Tree -- List of Abbreviations -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Primary Sources |
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Secondary Works -- List of Maps -- 1 Rethinking 1652 -- Introduction: Legacies, Contingency, and Climate -- Richelieu, Mazarin and the Origins of the Fronde, 1624-51 -- Richelieu and the système de l'extraordinaire -- Mazarin, the Regency and the Road to the Fronde -- 2 Mazarin's Fall -- The Prince versus the Cardinal -- Rising tensions: 1646-January 1650 -- The 'Fatal and Unfortunate Day' -- The Crisis: January/February 1651 -- They know not what they do . . . ' -- 'A muertos y a idos no ay amigos' -- 3 Condé's Miscalculation and Mazarin's Gamble -- Condé's Failure to Consolidate His Position |
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Condé's Situation Deteriorates -- Mazarin's Panic -- Reactions -- Actions -- Bléneau, 6/7 April 1652 -- 4 Towards Stalemate -- The War Intensifies: From Bléneau to the Combat at the Porte Saint-Antoine -- Condé, Paris, and the Princes' Army -- Provincial Unrest -- Military Breakthrough? -- The Peace that Failed -- Stalemate and Mazarin's Second Exile -- 5 The Cost of Civil War -- The Military Collapse beyond the Frontiers during 1652 -- Dunkirk -- Casale-Monferrato -- Barcelona -- War and the Subsistence Economy: Soldiers and Peasants -- 6 Autumn 1652: The Brink of the Precipice? |
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Lost Opportunities -- The September Campaign -- A Last Chance for Settlement? -- The Trap Closes -- Conclusion: Transactional Politics and the Cankered Decade: France in the 1650s -- The Cankered DecadeHow far could this legacy of building and maintaining parties, -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Sources -- Memoires and Journals -- Pamphlets -- General -- Secondary Sources -- Chronology -- Index |
| Summary |
Parrott challenges the near-universal notion that the French civil war of 1648-1652 was a predictable, trivial clash between royal forces and ministerial modernity. Instead, he challenges notions about the rule of the Cardinal-Ministers, Mazarin and his predecessor, Richelieu, and their contribution to creating the 'absolutism' of Louis XIV |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2020 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 27, 2020) |
| Subject |
Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661.
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Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
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Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666.
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Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666 fast |
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Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 fast |
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Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661 fast |
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Fronde.
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Fronde
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France -- History, Military -- 1643-1715.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051429
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191838828 |
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0191838829 |
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