Saint-Julien - Le Courrier François - 1649

Sells the rarest journals Le Courrier François in Burlesque Verses by Saint-Julien. He reissues the journal of Thé Renaudot’s sons who stayed in Paris and favored the Fronde, while their father, Théophraste Renaudot, must follow the Court to Saint-Germain because he has the monopoly on information with his Gazette.
Renaudot, should the Fronde prevail, asks his sons to print a journal supporting the Fronde and opposing Mazarin, while he, at court, prints his Gazette favorable to the power in place.
Le Courrier François des fils Renaudot is a newspaper that appeared for two months and counted 12 issues. It was published on Fridays and Saint-Julien translated it into burlesque verse to offer it on Sundays. It often mocks Mazarin. Le Courrier François also has 12 issues from January 5, 1649 (The year and the month were quite new) to April 3, 1649 (The first of April followed by Saturday on the eve of Easter).
Complete set of the 12 issues in Very Good (TB) condition except for the first page of No. 12, a little frayed at the margin. These journals are 377 years old!
"Their Court has issued Arrest in accordance / With ours of the eighth of January / By which we send you to hell / The Cardinal and his accomplices...
That day departed from Saint-Denis / Where the Mazarinis breed their nest...
But from Saint-Germain one writes / That Mazarin, wicked spirit / To break the correspondence / Between Paris and France / Has had the Couriers arrested...
It was the fifth of the month / That some Mazarin troops / To continue their ruin / And the ruin of the flat country...
All the events of the Fronde are dated and described:
The year and the month were quite new / Of nineteen seventy-nine (sic in original: mil six cens quarante neuf) / It was the ciquiesme day / The Queen had very well drawn... /
Mazarin had not eaten / When the Queen and His Eminence / Led the fierce King of France / Out of the City, into the Faux-Bourg...
And this Wednesday the twentieth of January / On this day the Polish troops / Who are by no means courteous / To the village of Sèvre and Meudon / Committed thirty violences / And more than a quarter of insolences / They plundered sacred places / And these filthy libertines / Fished out the weddings/dalliances / Of the village girls / They made the husbands cuckolds...
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