This passage describes the revolts and the manner in which the magistrates and statesmen attempted to observe propriety and enact their agendas more subtly. Voltaire writes that Cardinal Mazarin sought to skilfully divide the judiciary by exempting the upper courts from the paulette (the tax invented by Paulet under Henry IV) however, the Cardinal spoke French poorly and his weak pronunciation made him subject to ridicule, rendering his efforts ineffective. On 20 August 1648, the Prince of Condé was victorious at Lens and the ten-year-old king pronounced that Parliament would be very angry. The parliamentarians complained about being called rebels. The Queen and Cardinal resolved to have three of the most stubborn magistrates kidnapped but the Cardinal decided to do this at noon rather than midnight which incited the public to riot. The Queen eventually agrees to return the prisoners. The passage ends with a line that features later in the text (OCV, vol.13A, p.62, l.175).

This passage describes the revolts and the manner in which the magistrates and statesmen attempted to observe propriety and enact their agendas more subtly. Voltaire writes that Cardinal Mazarin sought to skilfully divide the judiciary by exempting the upper courts from the paulette (the tax invented by Paulet under Henry IV) however, the Cardinal spoke French poorly and his weak pronunciation made him subject to ridicule, rendering his efforts ineffective. On 20 August 1648, the Prince of Condé was victorious at Lens and the ten-year-old king pronounced that Parliament would be very angry. The parliamentarians complained about being called rebels. The Queen and Cardinal resolved to have three of the most stubborn magistrates kidnapped but the Cardinal decided to do this at noon rather than midnight which incited the public to riot. The Queen eventually agrees to return the prisoners. The passage ends with a line that features later in the text (OCV, vol.13A, p.62, l.175).

Wagnière notes that the captain of the naval regiment was hanged in Bordeaux, the Prince of Condé was assassinated, and the Cardinal’s library was sold. He then notes that in May, the exiled princess remained in Paris and presented a request to parliament in April 1650. He concludes by noting that Cardinal Mazarin was called a rascal in Parliament in 1650.

Notes discussing the creation of the motto of Louis XIV, ‘nec pluribus impar’ or ‘not unequal to many’, and moments from the lives and deaths of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Cardinal Mazarin, and Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother.

The collection includes:
1) Satires, epigrams, sonnets, and other pieces in verse composed by an admirer of Voltaire.
2) Copy of Phillippiques against the Duke of Orleans by Lagrange-Chancel
3) Pieces from the beginning of the 17th century. I) Letter from Marie de Médicis on the trial of the Maréchal de Marillac. II) Some pieces against Mazarin such as “Le Hardy frondeur à Mr le Duc de Beaufort”, and “Sur la retraite des Mazarinettes au Val de Grâce”, or “Verses against Mr le Prince de Condé”.
4) Several pieces in a very free vein, such as “sonnet” and a “madrigal”
5) Several pieces on the Régiment de la Calotte, a facetious and satirical company created in 1702
6) Satires on the Court of Louis XIV and attacks on noble characters of the time of the Fronde. I) “le Roy à mesdames de la Vallière et de Montespan”. II) “Les chambres de la Cour et de la Ville”. III) “Logemens des Dames avec leurs proverbes”
7) “Idée de la personne, de la cour de la manière de vivre du roy de Prusse, 1753”