. Mediæval and modern history . me the prevailing theorythat kings have a divineright to rule and that thepeople should have no partat all in government. 398. The Administrationof Mazarin (i643-i66i) ;Louis becomes his OwnPrime Minister. The religiouswar in Germany was still inprogress when, in 1643, LouisXIII died, leaving the vastauthority which his greatminister Cardinal Richelieuhad done so much to consoli-date and strengthen, as an in-heritance to son Louis,a mere child of five years. During th6 princes minority the government was in the handsof his mother, Anne of Austria, as
. Mediæval and modern history . me the prevailing theorythat kings have a divineright to rule and that thepeople should have no partat all in government. 398. The Administrationof Mazarin (i643-i66i) ;Louis becomes his OwnPrime Minister. The religiouswar in Germany was still inprogress when, in 1643, LouisXIII died, leaving the vastauthority which his greatminister Cardinal Richelieuhad done so much to consoli-date and strengthen, as an in-heritance to son Louis,a mere child of five years. During th6 princes minority the government was in the handsof his mother, Anne of Austria, as regent. She chose as her chiefminister an Italian ecclesiastic. Cardinal IVIazarin, who in his ad-ministration of affairs followed in the footsteps of his predecessor,Richelieu, carrying out with great ability the foreign policy of thatminister.^ Before his death the House of Austria in both itsbranches had been humiliated and crippled, and the House ofBourbon was ready to assume leadership in European affairs. 1 See sect. Fig. 74. Louis XIV. (After a paint-ing by Philippe de C/ia/;ipag/ie) 36o FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV [§ 399 Mazarin died in 1661. Upon this event Louis, now twenty-three years of age, calling together the heads of the variousdepartments of the government, said to them that in the futurehe should himself attend to affairs. He then charged the secre-taries not to sign any paper, not even a passport, without hisexpress commands. From this time on for more than half a cen-tury Louis was his own prime minister. He gave personal atten-tion to every matter, even the most trivial. Probably no wearerof a crown, Philip II of Spain possibly excepted, ever workedharder at the trade of a king, as he himself designated his em-ployment. He had able men about him, but they planned andworked — and sometimes chafed — under his minute directionsand tireless superintendence. 399. Louis Chief Aims. The history of Louis long reign willpresent coherence and unity only as we
Size: 1297px × 1926px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubje, booksubjectmiddleages
