ABSTRACT
The author argues that the rhetoric of war, peace and religion was a reflection of internal faction in the Republic as much as any real comment on external affairs. Authors alleged that those who wanted to change the formula for Public Prayer were doing the work of Spain and several writers compared the present situation to the years of the Truce earlier in the century. The anonymous author argued that it was war which had moulded the success of the Republic and the internal discord during the Truce years only proved the truth of that maxim. In his magisterial study of the pamphleteering of the Frondes Hubert Carrier described how works attacking Concini which were first published during the regency of Marie de Medici during the first two decades of the seventeenth church were reprinted during the Frondes with Mazarin as the object of their attack.
