This document is available in full for Friends of Herodotus March 11, 1649, the Regent Anne of Austria and Prime Minister Mazarin made peace with the Parliament of Paris.
is the end of the parliamentary Fronde. Judges waive limit royal power in France. Princes and lords are trying to turn it but without success.
In 1648, France was ruled by the regent Anne of Austria, mother of the young King Louis XIV (9 years), which has the useful advice of Mazarin.
The country must conduct foreign wars against the Habsburgs and the effort required to increase taxes. It does not take longer to train the privileged in a revolt. They climb the people against the government claiming the luxury in which the Court indulges.
May 13, 1648, the Parliament of Paris began to reform what he sees as abuses of the state. At the initiative of Councillor Peter Broussel, it is a House that will decide the state reform.
On 2 July 1648, the House imposes on Anne of Austria, a charter of 27 articles which gives Parliament the right to approve any new taxes. The regent Anne of Austria pretends to submit. But now his army won a great victory at Lens on the Spaniards.
The regent, reassured about the external situation, arrested several members, including Councillor Peter Broussel which his integrity (extremely rare) is immensely popular.
with this announcement, Paris rose during a "Day of the Barricades" . No fewer than 1,260 barricades blocking the Palais Royal, where lies Mazarin. The Regent bowed, freeing its prisoners and sign the 27 articles. But January 5, 1649, she fled to Saint-Germain-en-Laye with the cardinal, the young King Louis XIV and his brother while the royal army commanded by Conde laid siege to Paris.
Parliamentarians, who already have many privileges, did not really want a Revolution. They make weapons and sign the peace in Rueil.
In Paris and the provinces are multiplying "Mazarinades" , satirical songs written and Mazarin lying in the mud ...
Grand Conde, former winner of Rocroi , forges plots with a few nobles which his brother the Prince de Conti, and soon, civil war, aggravated by the intervention of the Spaniards, is the country with fire and blood.
The blunders of Conde and his alliance with the Spaniards leading to the defection of his supporters. 21 October 1652, Louis XIV, who was declared of age 7 September 1651, returned to Paris with his mother. He holds a bed of justice and declared a general amnesty (or almost). Four months later, in turn finds Mazarin Paris.
La Fronde des Princes is finite. But Louis XIV in the grudge Paris. He later chose to leave the Louvre, home to the court for four centuries, and build a new palace at Versailles.
The French monarchy emerge stronger events of the Fronde while at the same time, England will experience the Republic after running his first Charles King . France is evolving towards an absolute monarchy , England monarchy to a parliamentary .
