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Cover -- 1652: The Cardinal, The Prince, And The Crisis Of The Fronde -- Copyright -- Dediction -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Dramatis Personae In 1652 -- The Royal Family -- The Court -- The Ministers -- Military Commanders Initially Supporting Mazarin -- Mazarin's 'allies' (less Than Committed Fidèles) -- Mazarin's Agents, Confidants, And Fidèles -- Condé's Family, Allies, And Fidèles -- The Old Fronde And Supporters Of The Cardinal De Retz -- The Parlementaires -- Outside France -- Bourbon Family Tree -- List Of Abbreviations -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Primary Sources Secondary Works -- List Of Maps -- 1 Rethinking 1652 -- Introduction: Legacies, Contingency, And Climate -- Richelieu, Mazarin And The Origins Of The Fronde, 1624-51 -- Richelieu And The Système De L'extraordinaire -- Mazarin, The Regency And The Road To The Fronde -- 2 Mazarin's Fall -- The Prince Versus The Cardinal -- Rising Tensions: 1646-january 1650 -- The 'fatal And Unfortunate Day' -- The Crisis: January/february 1651 -- They Know Not What They Do... ' -- 'a Muertos Y A Idos No Ay Amigos' -- 3 Condé's Miscalculation And Mazarin's Gamble -- Condé's Failure To Consolidate His Position Condé's Situation Deteriorates -- Mazarin's Panic -- Reactions -- Actions -- Bléneau, 6/7 April 1652 -- 4 Towards Stalemate -- The War Intensifies: From Bléneau To The Combat At The Porte Saint-antoine -- Condé, Paris, And The Princes' Army -- Provincial Unrest -- Military Breakthrough? -- The Peace That Failed -- Stalemate And Mazarin's Second Exile -- 5 The Cost Of Civil War -- The Military Collapse Beyond The Frontiers During 1652 -- Dunkirk -- Casale-monferrato -- Barcelona -- War And The Subsistence Economy: Soldiers And Peasants -- 6 Autumn 1652: The Brink Of The Precipice? Lost Opportunities -- The September Campaign -- A Last Chance For Settlement? -- The Trap Closes -- Conclusion: Transactional Politics And The Cankered Decade: France In The 1650s -- The Cankered Decadehow Far Could