ABSTRACT
Mazarin was always capable of learning from experience. He realised after Rueil that it was expedient to work with the courts and the financial officers. With each development in the noble Fronde it would become clearer that there was more to bind than to divide them. Becoming inured to the threats that had once unnerved him, Mazarin had been able to ignore the last essentially frondeur gesture of Parlement when, in January 1649, he was tried and sentenced to be expelled from the kingdom. Following his lead and their own desire to keep the administrative wheels turning, ministers turned to a policy of appeasement, with selective targeting of likely troublemakers. Rentiers were to be paid interest due, officiers their salaries. Late in 1649 Parlement would be offered the chance of staging trials of prominent frondeurs. It became policy to keep Parlement informed of seditious conduct by nobles: also of negotiations undertaken with provincial parlements. So Parlement was offered what, for many of its members, was the main point behind their protests: a sense of being partner with the monarchy.
