by Pierre Goubert · Fayard · tapa dura · ISBN 9782213016504
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«Mazarin» is Pierre Goubert's biography of Cardinal Mazarin, published by Fayard in hardcover (572 pages, in French).
Biography of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin (1602-1661), chief minister of France during Louis XIV's minority. The book presents him as the continuator of Richelieu's work: he ends the war with Spain and the Empire, incorporates territories such as Alsace, Artois, Roussillon, Cerdagne and southern Luxembourg into the kingdom, and surrounds himself with ministers such as Fouquet, Le Tellier and Colbert who would later support Louis XIV.
Historical study in French, published in 1990, including bibliographic references (pp. 529-549) and an index.
For readers of French history and the seventeenth century, interested in the reign of Louis XIV and in political biographies of the Ancien Régime.
Pierre Goubert was a French historian. A member of the Annales School, he is considered one of the founders of historical demography and modern rural history. He was a noted specialist on the 17th century, especially of the Ancien Régime societies and mentalities.
