Western Civilization II / Unit 1 WC2 0005 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mazarin and the Fronde, 1648 to 1653
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The idea
Louis XIII died in sixteen forty-three, leaving a child king and a regency run by Cardinal Mazarin, Richelieu's protégé. Nobles and the Paris parlement rose against the crown's taxes in the Fronde, a civil war in two campaigns.
In practice
Defeated by sixteen fifty-three. The witness: its collapse only strengthened the monarchy.
Where people slip
The boy king vowed to bring the nobles into line.
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