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1. 21. faits contre ce ministre. The pamphlets, songs and squibs both in prose and in verse [Mazaritiades], composed against Cardinal Mazarin are almost innumerable; the Arsenal libraryin Paris containsa collection of 4,272 pièces, and the public library at Saint Petersburg boasts of a still richer set, upwards of 6,000 pièces, bound in 137 tliick volumes. M. Moreau bas published a BibiiograpJiie des Alazarinades (3 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1 850-1855), and a Choix de Alazarinades (Paris, 2 vols. 8vo. ).