Meaning of mazarinade | Babel Free

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A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.

historical

Examples

“More important for our purposes, the mazarinade confirms the tenacious image of the captal as an uncivilized tyrant whose visible presence at the heart of the city in Puy-Paulin was an offense to the city's dignity.”

“In one of the most infamous of the scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlets known an mazarinades which appeared at this time, the Contrat de mariage, the constitution was figured not as a marriage between king and nation but as a union between Parlement and the people of Paris […]”

“One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy.”

CEFR level