Mazarin: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Mazarin by Arthur Hassall: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 6:09:13 running time and a link to listen.
Mazarin, credited to Arthur Hassall, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Mazarin by Arthur Hassall. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Though a cardinal, he was not a priest and was probably secretly married to the Queen-Mother, Anne of Austria. Together they ruled France, facing the great rebellion known as the Fronde, and with the help of the military genius of Turenne, prevailed over the armies of Spain, Austria, and the traitorous Grand Condé. Arthur Hassall writes of Mazarin that by the time of his death in 1661 he had, through "patience, perseverance, and sagacity," fulfilled Richelieu's foreign policy and made the twenty-one year-old Louis XIV the absolute monarch of Europe's greatest power. (Pamela Nagami)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Mazarin
- Author credits: Arthur Hassall
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 9
- Listed recording duration: 6:09:13
Catalogue topics
- Louis XIV
- thirty years' war
- charles i
- mazarin
- turenne
- grand conde
- anne of austria
- peace of westphalia
Track guide
- 01 - Ch. 1: The Early Years of Mazarin's Ministry, 1643-1646 — 44:29
- 02 - Ch. 2: Mazarin's Connection with the Rebellions in Naples and England, 1643-1649 — 36:07
- 03 - Ch. 3: The Peace of Westphalia, 1648 — 28:09
- 04 - Ch. 4: The Parliamentary Fronde, 1648-1649 — 42:37
- 05 - Ch. 5: The Early Years of the New Fronde, 1649-1651 — 45:19
- 06 - Ch. 6: The Close of the Fronde, 1651-1653 — 43:09
- 07 - Ch. 7: The Spanish War and the English Alliance, 1648-1659 — 41:35
- 08 - Ch. 8: The League of the Rhine and the Peace of the Pyrenees, 1658-1659 — 49:03
- 09 - Ch. 9: Mazarin's Death, Character, and Work — 41:09
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