Word: mazarin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz that "Franco and the Spanish people have rendered great services to the world-the new Spanish stability marks a step toward complete Western European integration." Finally in October, just 300 years after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace of the Pyrenees, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations met again. What Napoleon did in between was not mentioned. Said Castiella: "The day of complete friendship and loyalty between Europeans has come...
...Greetings," replied Cardinal Mazarin...
...Astonish Me!" Last week, as Cocteau took his place at last in the charmed circle of immortality, devoted crowds of the avant-garde gathered outside the former Palais Mazarin, and free tickets to the induction ceremony were scalped for as much as $50. Most were hoping to be shocked, for the yearning to startle and shock has infused much of Cocteau's gaudy swoopings, soarings and occasional pancake landings among the lively arts. The value of surprise was brought home to Cocteau one day 40 years ago, when the ballet impresario Diaghilev turned a coolly monocled eye on Cocteau...
...Loire 80 miles south of Paris. During its long history and frequent alterations, Château Sully-sur-Loire, as it came to be known, lent its sheltering roof to the entertainment of nine Kings of France, as well as to Voltaire, the Marquis de Lafayette, Cardinal Mazarin and Joan of Arc. In recent times 20,000 tourists a year have trooped through...
...Derived from the Fronde, French opposition movement (1648) against Cardinal Mazarin. The Italians use "frondista" to mean a rebel, especially one who is making trouble within his own group...