In true Italian fashion Mazarin overcame by seeming to yield; and what he said was the thing he did not mean.

Intrigue and bribery were his implements and weapons.
The situation awoke distrust.

It was a time to recover lost privileges, and to struggle out of the chains riveted by Richelieu.

A civil war known as the Fronde was the result.
As all classes had grievances, all were represented in this general undoing of the last minister's great work.

But as no two classes desired the same thing, the miserable war, without genius and without system, miserably failed.