mazarinade

plural mazarinades

1. historicalA scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.

   One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy.

   2002, Todd P. Olson, Poussin and France, page 83

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   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.

   1998, Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia G Cochrane, The Lord's First Night, Chicago, page 98

   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, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 11–12