[Mazarinades[ - Le Babillard du Temps 1649 - 1649

Time-Burlesque Bulletin of Bursting Weather, 1649.
Selling rare journal of the Fronde Le Babillard du Temps, 1649, six issues of 8 pages each. Complete publication appeared during the siege of Paris.
No 1: “Since Babillard is named after me/ I will spare no one/ I am full and brimful of wine/ I want to speak of Tabarin/ Tabarin, this Marinique/ This man is perverse and unjust/ Who has neither God nor Faith nor Law/ Who has carried off our King/ And seated our City/ Like a bad and clumsy man/ By a great Prince of Condé/ Whom he has enchanted without delay/ …
It is Condé who will not listen/ This day nor rhyme nor reason/ And who in some houses/ Has had fire and flames ignited/ Is it not a great scandal for him/ To permit his soldiers/ Like thieves and plunderers/ To lay men in their undershirts/ And to steal the Church’s Goods/ To violate women and young girls/ Doing civilly uncouth acts/ Such as Turks and barbarians…
Mazarin has come in post/ But they have closed the door on him/ Saying bluntly/ That they did not want his chatter/ …
No 2: I want to speak of Gratelard/ This valiant champion La Rivière/ Who understands well the proper way/ To deal with Mazarin/ Forcing him to blush/ With punches more than four/ …
Everyone runs to the Halles/ The wardens of bread aren’t showing much/ Bread to cry out of hunger/ To have it, one continues/ We quarrel, we kill each other…
No 3: I will tell great change/ Which arrived recently/ Friday the world swore/ Some cry, others murmur/ They say they want bread/ But the Boulanger, too sharp, has said/ He has no flour/ From which the people show a sad face/ And say they will strike down/ Those who do not give them any/ …
We do not want Mazarin/ All the more so because he has a crafty mind/ … Others fearing too much the siege/ Say that he will stay in Liège/ In Modena or Piombino/ Wherever he wears his domino/ His bonnet and his bag/ Which for me is not too light/ Having through his unheard-of deeds/ Filled him with Louis…/ No 5: God will grant us grace/ To overcome those who wish ill/ In Paris and the Cardinal can boast and say/ He must die a martyr/ Thus Nostradamus foretold/ And the great Polyphémus/ In three or four centuries..
Let us speak of the Prince of Conty/ Who is endowed with valor/ Of beauty and good grace/ … Every day he goes to work/ With the other generals/ Works hard promptly/ On the lines and the trenches/ To prevent our enemies/ From doing what they promised/ To that devil Cardinal/ Who is worse than a horse/…
For truly the Duke of Longueville/ Has a very fine army/ Which is lodged today/ In Rouen’s faubourg/ And they go to take their march/ To pull as far as the Pont de l’Arche/ …”
** At the end of No 2, the author indicates that the Reader should buy only the Babillard printed at La Vigne. There are probably counterfeits.
*** If disturbances erupt in the provinces of Rouen, Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence, if the Parliament of Paris has succeeded in neutralizing the municipality and the prévôt des marchands, the siege of the city is nonetheless effective. The wheat granaries around Paris no longer feed the city and the price of bread quadruples in two months. The Charenton battle won by the royal army on February 8, 1649, against a few groups of frondeurs prevents any relief. The king’s soldiers ravage the south of Paris. La Rochefoucauld is wounded in the throat by a shot during a skirmish at Brie-Comte-Robert…
* Port declared for postage value.