mazarinade
English edit
Etymology edit
From French mazarinade, from Jules Mazarin, the chief minister and a popular target of such pamphlets.
Noun edit
mazarinade (plural mazarinades)
- (historical) A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.
- 1998, Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia G Cochrane, The Lord's First Night, Chicago, page 98:
- 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.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 11–12:
- 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 […]
- 2002, Todd P. Olson, Poussin and France, page 83:
- One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy.
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mazarinade f (plural mazarinades)
Further reading edit
- “mazarinade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.