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  • Thumbnail for Cardinal Mazarin
    Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate...
    69 KB (9,291 words) - 00:15, 13 November 2024
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    that office until his death in 1642, when he was succeeded by Cardinal Jules Mazarin, whose career the cardinal had fostered. Richelieu became engaged in...
    62 KB (6,982 words) - 15:15, 15 November 2024
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    chief minister of Louis XV from 1723 to 1726. Paul Jules' son, Guy Jules Paul de La Porte, duc Mazarin et de La Meilleraye (1701–1738), married Louise Françoise...
    24 KB (2,664 words) - 10:46, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
    the name used to describe the "Mazarin stone" in the short story implies the stone once belonged to Cardinal Jules Mazarin, who, upon his death in 1661...
    13 KB (1,483 words) - 07:41, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Treaty of Münster (October 1648)
    between, on the one hand, the Kingdom of France with regent cardinal Jules Mazarin for the underage king Louis XIV of France, plus his allies, and, on...
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    belief that the sculpture was owned by Cardinal Jules Mazarin, but this is now considered unlikely. The Mazarin Venus is a Roman reproduction of Greek sculptures...
    2 KB (140 words) - 19:45, 6 July 2024
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    Charles sold the Duchies of Nevers and Rethel in 1659 to Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the de facto Regent of France, and they became part of France. On 7...
    7 KB (395 words) - 01:53, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Philippe Jules Mancini, Duke of Nevers
    Philippe Jules Mancini, 8th Duke of Nevers (1641–1707) was the nephew of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France immediately after the death of King...
    8 KB (914 words) - 01:58, 24 September 2024
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    successor as the King's chief minister, (1642–61) Cardinal Jules Mazarin, (1602–1661). Cardinal Mazarin oversaw the creation of a French Royal Navy that rivalled...
    57 KB (6,280 words) - 17:53, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tea in France
    chocolate, and coffee, and gained in popularity with the arrival of Jules Mazarin at court, who attributed medicinal virtues to tea. The price was high...
    54 KB (6,453 words) - 04:32, 2 October 2024
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    effectively the ruler of France. Richelieu's successor was also a cardinal, Jules Mazarin. Guillaume Dubois and André-Hercule de Fleury complete the list of the...
    76 KB (8,181 words) - 16:36, 9 November 2024
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    build and maintain the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the library of Cardinal Jules Mazarin at Paris. Naudé was a precursor of Pierre Bayle and Fontenelle. Naudé...
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  • niece of Cardinal Mazarin, Duchess of Mazarin, Duchess of Mayenne, Duchess of Meilleraye, mistress of Charles II of England Paul-Jules de la Porte (1699–1731;...
    5 KB (465 words) - 09:48, 12 August 2024
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    campaign, writing a 13-page report in Dalum which he sent to Cardinal Jules Mazarin in Paris. News of the march across the Little Belt and the collapse...
    79 KB (10,252 words) - 07:03, 5 November 2024
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    1642 before the conclusion of that conflict, having groomed Cardinal Jules Mazarin as a successor. Louis XIII outlived him but by one year, dying in 1643...
    110 KB (10,884 words) - 04:11, 17 November 2024
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    Quartier Mazarin. This residential district was constructed for the gentry of Aix by Archbishop Michele Mazzarino brother of Cardinal Jules Mazarin in the...
    55 KB (5,529 words) - 08:59, 27 October 2024
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    King Louis’ first official edicts after the death of royal adviser Jules Mazarin, the "Letters Patent of the King to Establish a Royal Academy of Dance...
    22 KB (2,903 words) - 03:45, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bust of Cardinal Richelieu
    commission Bernini to make a full-length sculpture, through his friend Jules Mazarin and the French ambassador in Rome François Annibal d'Estrées, but Pope...
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  • disruption in the Dutch and English Baltic trade. In addition, Cardinal Jules Mazarin threatened a French invasion of the Netherlands if it were to assist...
    8 KB (853 words) - 07:04, 5 November 2024
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    which belonged Maria Mancini, lover of Louis XIV and niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin. But the origins of the family name were likely Germanic. The name possibly...
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