Mazarinades

Durets, fully in his element, stirred up the flame of sedition to the utmost.

He found assistance from the authors of the innumerable pamphlets known as Mazarinade, libelous writings against the cardinal and the queen, which without pretensions of literary merit tickled the ears of the Parisians with their mendacious and brutal allusions.

Mazarin pointed out to the queen that the revolution in England had been preceded by a similar phenomenon and bade her remember that when in order to stop such writings Charles I had sacrificed Strafford, he had but begun his own downfall by encouraging the Parliament to cry for further concessions.

Secure for the time in the support of Condé and Orléans, the court now determined upon force.