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Article: Mazarin, Jules (Giulio Mazarini; 1602–1661)
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MAZARIN, JULES (Giulio Mazarini; 1602
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1661)
MAZARIN, JULES
(Giulio Mazarini; 1602
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1661), diplomat, cardinal, and first minister during the regency of King Louis XIV of France. Born near Pascina outside Rome on 14 July 1602, Mazarin was the eldest son of six children. He received an early Jesuit education in Rome and then pursued further studies in Spain. With the patronage and support of the Colonna family, who had ties to the court of Pope Urban VIII (reigned 1623
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1644), he initially entered into the papal army in 1624, but by the late 1620s instead took the initial vows of a cleric and became a papal diplomat.
In 1630, while serving as an envoy for the papal ...