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The Correspondence of Albert Bailly
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La Correspondance d'Albert Bailly (Aoste, 1999)
published by the Académie Saint-Anselme under
the direction of Gianni Mombello, with volume I transcribed and commented
upon by Luca Giachino, volume II by Paola Cifarelli and volume III by
Antonella
Amatuzzi.
Christine of Savoy's agent in Paris during the 1640s was a certain Albert
Bailly, a Barnabite. He had close contacts, even friends, in high places,
including Marin Cureau de la Chambre; so his regular reports to the Duchess shed
light on a lot that was going on in Paris. This edition of his correspondence This edition is superb, with a very effective system of cross
references. There is a courtly air to some of the letters; there is mostly
high intelligence and astute observation. No one should comment on Parisian
politics in the 1640s without going through Bailly. What follows is my own
personal and particular index. There are many other subjects that might well
have been mentioned. Antonella Amatuzzi is to be thanked for sending me her
(and the others') contribution to the edition. We became acquainted over
some questions regarding BN, Mss fr. 25025-25026, which will eventually have
to be put into a computer. (Pat Ranum long ago mde a typed transcription.)
Volume I: 1643-1648
page 14 – biography of Bailly
29 – good note on Marie Christine
30 – "pantes que Dieu m'a donnée pour l'étude"
66 – 10,000 bourgeois entrent dans le Palais; Thoré is hazed
95 – interesting on Charpy
101 – Doujat
109 – "l'astrologue judiciaire"
115 – no printed books on regencies
118 – Talon's Jan. 16, 1648, speech
122 – Berthaud, the castrato
128 – Saint-Sorlin
133 – on friendship, "liaison intime"
137 – description of how grief and love progress in the body
144 – d'Hemery "plus puissant que jamais"
151 – he has access to registers of the Parlement.
165 – Louis, "insensible et réservé"
176 – joining of chambers. Parlement = self interest
194 – not sympathetic to the Parlement
199 – Cureau de la Chambre, informer
206 – Parlement wants to "attirer le peuple"
207 – Daniel Voisin, his informer in the Parlement
212 – Fronde as a "tempête"
213 – important note on Madame Royale
217 – he is pleased by d'Hemery's disgrace
219 – d'Hemery tried to destroy Séguier; really dangerous
man
230 – "Le Parlement se range"
240 – Digby on the Parlementaire troops.
241 – 400 barricades. Colchester holds firm.
242 – double-check when Caesar's Commentaries was translated
by Louis XIV (?) and was printed.
243 – on plaster in Paris and humidity
245 – "S.E. veut la paix." M. Rossignol, favorite of SE, called a "mignon"
earlier.
247 – "Reyne fait assurer principaux bougeois"
251 – he recommences - propaganda from Turin - favorable to Anne and
Louis
251 – Talk of Philippe being seized by the Parlement
257 – Hamilton affair; see also pp. 266-267
259 – on issue of Chavigny's release
269 – "harangères"
275 – rumors about English battles
281 – general review of Fronde, Oct. 1648
288 – Parlement has made its "peace", Oct 1648
301 – Charpy, see also p. 312
303 – quarrel, Parlement-University
304 – England .... and also Ireland, p. 319
309 – "Elbeuf is broke" which confirms statement by Retz
318 – Broussels
319 – Seine is high (also, p. 327!!)
323 – "le peuple en est las"
326 – Marie Christine compared with Christina of Sweden
345 – Mazarin's morning
353 – Cureau de la Chambre!
Volume II, 1649-1650
page 6 – used Journal du Parlement
49 – his réseau includes Tardieu
51 – M. de Saint-André, gentilhomme de la Reine
60 – "tempests" for civil war Piedmont
65 – Parlement gives money to Henriette Marie
69 – They are trying the king of England
70 – "appearance that the end of world is near"
72 – price of wheat is high, Jan. 1649
73 – exposing sacrament, preserve Anne and Louis
77 – young in Parlement do not want peace
78 – "peuple de Paris" doesn't want peace until Mazarin is out
83 – Molé comes to visit him
85 – Peace of Saint-Germain
86 – Retz remains silent. Bailly sees him. Re Retz: "remuer cette grande
machine"
97 – Blancmesnil and Broussel
90 – April 9, 1649, bourgeois disarm
93 – harangère leads some "frippons"
99 – pillage of a house
101 – "femmes manquent de respect"
102 – excellent on Philippe d'Orléans
104 – Anne receives the métiers
110 – Broussel's relatives want him to quiet down.
119 – Beaufort: "délices du peuple"
120 – situation in Ireland
121 – Lavie's fate
122 – collecting mazarinades for Turin (also pp. 125, 127, 174)
130 – portrait of Christine of Savoie; also p. 177
133 – Cureau de la Chambre
134 – Henriette Marie on Charles I !
145 – Civil war and pillage in the country
145 – window-breaking
145 – on paying rents, "locataires"
146 – "fureur des peuples" and "imprimés"
146-7 – Mlle de Pont and Duke of Guise
154 – Louis Machon and Chavigny
159 – England
160 – Pontac
164 – "moral economy" of weapons, Paris
165 – "séditieux"
185 – maybe Mazarin will command army !
190 – Bailly on cutting penpoints
196 – "Ministre flambé"
198 – summary of Jansenist views
207 – confirms Tallement on Thoré
211 – Fairfax and Cromwell
217 – Note on Louis III de Brissac
221 – French not giving money to Charles II !
222 – excellent on "Egalistes" !
228 – "bonnes paroles," Anne to "marchands"
232-33 – interview with a "marchand" !
Volume III, 1651
page 6 – relations between letters, gazettes and mazarinades
33 – dossier plan
57 – "sacre du roi," 20,000 francs
66 – Louis giving Gaston a monstrous camel
67 – Seine is very high, Jan 1651
74 – Molé declares for the princes, he is cross because a fifth
post of secrétaire d'État is not
created for his son.
76 – only Combalet and Servien in Mazarin's party
78 – Cardinal, lost ability to act, according to Bailly
81 – on guards searching princely carriages
82 – Mazarin derided by Condé for his accent. All excellent on
political atmosphere at the moment of Mazarin's departure.
89 – Gaston won't come to a conseil if Mazarin is present
90 – Gaston seeks written assurances
91 – attempts to make a special council including maréchaux
de France
99 – Condé, on release, kisses and talks to his sword
101 – Anne detests Chateauneuf, Villeroi
102 – Anne has confidence in Servien
105 – Anne's and Mazarin's entrapment of Condé recounted
106 – Parlement "surchauffé contre Mazarin, "cette vagabonde
Eminence"
110 – horrible "musique des colporteurs"
113 – bourgeois guard the gates
115 – Villetroy received "conseillers honoraires au Parlement"
122 – asserts it was Mme de Chevreuse who convinced Mazarin to leave
Paris.
123 – "royaume en combustion"; Mazarin called a "tiran"
125 – "La Reyne adoucit fort ... elle possède entièrement
le Roy, qui est merveilleusement sage
et discret"
126 – Condé, reformed, "il ne voit plus de femmes"
131 – Chateauneuf becomes garde des Sceaux; "ce choix couteau à
la gorge"
133 – about Estates, Tours
138 – he believes "tempestes"and "violences" do not last long
143 – extended council meetings
144 – Le Tellier on the way out?
145 – Beaufort seeks Anne's favor
147 – Bailly sees Anne gaining in the Parlement and the princes
losing
147 – Talon returns from seeing Mazarin
149 – France, like the sea; France dividing into two parts
(corps)
151 – menace against Anne, removing Regency from her, like Charles
VIII
152 – Molé comes around to Anne and is anti-Gaston; historical
language on civil war,
conforms with what Talon says in 1648
154 – Retz's role
155 – a Third Estate meeting aux Carmes
162 – desire to believe there will be peace
165 – Anne's treaty with Gaston - not from anywhere else! Mostly about
military powers, lieutenant général.
168 – Bailly's theories on color
170 – Mme de Savoie's reputation — a refrain
172 – April 14, 1651, Molé's fate. Anne acts on Gaston's
orders
173 – Gaston is happy, victorious
177 – So far Bailly does not anticipate Mazarin's return
181 – office of "secrétaire du cabinet", 40,000 ecus. Anne
pays
182 – Maisons's reputation
183 – on negotiations with tax farmers; on La Vieuville's return
184 – he orders praise literature for Christine
186 – reception at Maisons
187 – "on parle du retour du Cardinal"
190 – Does Séguier dissimulate re Mazarin?
191 – Mme de Chevreuse's return
192 – on financial proposals - taxes, check with Dessert
193 – royal dining ceremony, Louis XIV - on his education
203 – "La Reyne se rend tous les jours plus ferme"
204 – negotiations with financiers
208 – "rapts" and duels
212 – report on Mazarin's ministère
215 – Condé gets 800,000 livres !
219 – Davila
221 – strange songs sung against Mme de Longueville
228 – Parlement comes toward Anne
231 – on dissimulation - speaking far from one's thought !
233 – death of Chanoine Picot
235 – preacher, "fulminant contre Mazarin"
237 – whole effort to impede Mazarin's return
238 – long discussions
256 – trying to get Louis XIV to fall in love, sister to Mme
Beauvais
262 – Bailly records anti-Mazarin sentiment
266 – Louis XIV's Commentaires published (see comment vol I,
p. 242)
273 – lit de justice, Sept. 1651
280 – Bautru; Charles II's troops
285 – re Mazarin, "le peuple menace"
293 – on Mazarin's impatience !
294 – "secrétaire du cabinet", 100,000 écus, in fact it's
36,000
303 – finding money to pay rentiers and thus avoid a
"tumulte"
307 – recognize the English Republic?
366 – Condé, allied to the Spanish
342 – royal authority increasing and enough to hold a public
hanging
343 – Cromwell won't ally with Condé.
344 – Mazarin writes to Elbeuf
345 – Séguier tells him Mazarin is coming. Bailly doesn't want
Mazarin's return but he respects
éguier.
345 – Theatins
348 – metaphors - stones and rocks, fronde. Gaston speaks well.
Launching "foudres"
349 – Mazarin "perturbateur"
350 – on Roannès on Mazarin
351 – a rumor that 40 "filoux" have left Paris to try to kill Mazarin
for the reward
354 – Anne has had 2 letters written by Louis XIV to Mazarin. Louis
not happy to do it.
360 – Chevalier de Guise, Fete des Rois
365 – royal music and tenebrae at Feuillants
370 – Maisons receives Anne and Louis at Maisons
374 – Philippe gets a diamond for taking his medicine
378 – more on fete and Guise; Mlle has 6-7 violinists at her
disposal
386 – on how the Cardinal looks after his trip: "parfumé"
388 – rumors about kidnapping the king
389 – "confiance publique"
390 – Epernon accused of wanting to kidnap Louis; his carriage
destroyed
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