Mazarin
Also known as: Cardinal Mazarin / M. de Mazarin / Signor Mazarin / Signor Mazarini / the cardinal / the prelate · Family: French court · Role: cardinal · First appears: Chapter 9
Life events
- Madame de Chevreuse reveals letters allegedly proving Fouquet took thirteen million francs from the state.(Chapter40)
- With: Madame de Chevreuse Laicques Fouquet
- “Because I have, or rather Laicques has, certain letters in his possession from Cardinal Mazarin, which establish the existence of very strange accounts. ‘What accounts?’ ‘Relative to various sums of money borrowed and disposed of. I cannot very distinctly remember what they are; but they establish the fact that the superintendent, according to these letters, which are signed by Mazarin, had taken thirteen millions of francs from the coffers of the state. The case is a very serious one.’”
- Madame de Chevreuse reveals Mazarin’s letters accusing Fouquet of embezzling treasury funds.(Chapter41)
- With: Madame de Chevreuse Colbert Fouquet
- “six letters from M. de Mazarin which establish the offense in question.”
- Fouquet discovers that Mazarin’s receipt for thirteen million francs has been stolen.(Chapter48)
- With: Fouquet
- “That Mazarin’s receipt has been stolen from me; Madame de Chevreuse was right, chevalier; I have appropriated the public funds”
Chapter 9
- enemies with D’Artagnan “M. Colbert is a mean fellow, and I hate him as I used to hate Mazarin, but without fearing him.”
Chapter 40
- married with Anne of Austria “the letters from her husband, Signor Mazarini, would have served me as an introduction”
Chapter 41
- with Fouquet (The passage alleges a financial transfer between Mazarin and Fouquet.) “M. Mazarin must have handed the money to M. Fouquet, who must have kept it for his own purposes; but the question is, what money?”
Chapter 48
- with Madame de Chevreuse (Madame de Chevreuse possesses Mazarin’s letters.) “it seems that the duchesse has a good many letters of M. de Mazarin’s in her possession.”
- with Fouquet (Mazarin arranged for Fouquet to advance him thirteen million francs.) “Well, then, one day Signor Mazarin, Heaven rest his soul! made a profit of thirteen millions upon a concession of lands in the Valtelline; he canceled them in the registry of receipts, sent them to me, and then made me advance them to him for war expenses.”
Chapter 64
- ward: Louis XIV “Louis, brought up by Mazarin and Anne of Austria, knew better than any one else his vocation as a monarch;”
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