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[[Image:Mazarin.jpg|right|thumb|150px]]
[[Image:Mazarin.jpg|right|thumb|150px]]
'''Cardinal Jules Mazarin''', born '''Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino''' (1602-1661) was a French cardinal and statesman who controlled the French government while [[Louis XIV]] was young. Mazarin was a conservative who followed the aims of [[Cardinal Richelieu]], his main sponsor. Their goals were to support the Catholic Church, to secure and maintain royal absolutism in France, and to make France the leading power of Europe. His main achievements were the ending of the [[Thirty Years War]] through the [[Treaty of Westphalia]] in 1648 and his defeat of the Fronde in 1653. Using an elaborate network of personal relations, he restored royal authority to the point at which the king could rule alone. Mazarin attained his aims by both scrupulous and unscrupulous means, inspired love in some and hatred in others, and was controversial in his own time and ever since.
'''Cardinal Jules Mazarin''', born '''Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino''' (1602-1661) was a French [[cardinal]] and statesman who controlled the French government while [[Louis XIV]] was young. Mazarin was a conservative who followed the aims of [[Cardinal Richelieu]], his main sponsor. Their goals were to support the Catholic Church, to secure and maintain royal absolutism in France, and to make France the leading power of Europe. His main achievements were the ending of the [[Thirty Years War]] through the [[Treaty of Westphalia]] in 1648 and his defeat of the Fronde in 1653. Using an elaborate network of personal relations, he restored royal authority to the point at which the king could rule alone. Mazarin attained his aims by both scrupulous and unscrupulous means, inspired love in some and hatred in others, and was controversial in his own time and ever since.
==Career==
==Career==
* Wolf, John B. ''Louis XIV'' (1968), the standard scholarly biography [http://www.questia.com/read/103250721 online edition]
* Wolf, John B. ''Louis XIV'' (1968), the standard scholarly biography [http://www.questia.com/read/103250721 online edition]
[[Category:Cardinals]]
[[Category:French History]]
[[Category:French History]]