It was rebuilt and re-embellished in the following century thanks to the help of Cardinal Mazarin.

"Monsieur, the Cardinal Mazarin has been so kind as to think of me," he said.

"Sir," said the young man, "will you be so good as to tell me if it be true that Cardinal Mazarin is no longer minister?"

"Are you not charged with a mission from his eminence, Cardinal Mazarin?"

There was no one in the whole group in a bad humor except Cardinal Mazarin.

At the cardinal's death in 1642, the company passed to his successor Cardinal Mazarin.

It found its way into the collection of Cardinal Mazarin and is now in the Louvre.

It was founded through a bequest by the Cardinal Mazarin.

"Cardinal Mazarin is known to have had dozens of French quilted bed covers."

Here they remained under the protection of Cardinal Mazarin.