1: Rethinking 1652
2: Mazarin's Fall
3: Condé's Miscalculation and Mazarin's Gamble (Autumn 1651 to
March 1652)
4: Towards Stalemate (March to August 1652)
5: The Cost of Civil War
6: Autumn 1652: The Brink of the Precipice?
Conclusion: Transactional Politics and the Cankered Decade: France
in the 1650's
Bibliography
David Parrott is Professor of Early Modern History and Fellow and
Tutor at New College, University of Oxford. He has researched and
written extensively on early modern military and political history.
His previous publications include a study of the French army during
the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu, and The Business of War, a
study of military contracting and private enterprise in early
modern Europe. Between 2013 and 2016 he held a Leverhulme Trust
Senior Research Fellowship, which allowed him to undertake the
research for this book.
Parrott's account of the Fronde, "the revolt between 1648 and 1653
against the government of [C]ardinal Jules Mazarin" in France,
revolves around the cardinal and the prince de Condé. He argues
that efforts to reach a political settlement in 1652 between the
king and the rebellious princes failed in part because of Mazarin's
greed, Condé's arrogance, and the inability of both men to satisfy
their clients and allies' fiscal and honorific demands, while the
civil war devastated and depopulated broad swaths of the kingdom.
Summing Up: Recommended
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