Cardinal Mazarin - in Fiction

In Fiction

• A fictionalized Mazarin is a major character in Alexandre Dumas' novels Twenty Years After and Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. In them, Mazarin is portrayed as power-hungry, suspicious, and greedy.
• Mazarin is a character of some importance in 1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis.
• The "Mazarin diamond" is searched for in a November, 1899, Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Mazarin Stone.
• Mazarin is a major character in the 2005 series Young Blades, portrayed by Michael Ironside.
• Mazarin serves as the mastermind antagonist in the Hallmark movie La Femme Musketeer. Personality- and ambition-wise, he is nearly identical to Cardinal Richelieu.
• Mazarin appeared in the series Le Chevalier Tempête ("The Flashing Blade").
• Umberto Eco's novel The Island of the Day Before takes place just after the transition from Richelieu's rule to Mazarin's. Its protagonist witnesses the death watch for Richelieu and is subsequently forced by Mazarin to undertake a bizarre mission to the other side of the world.
• Mazarin plays a central role in the play Vincent In Heaven, which tells the story of St. Vincent DePaul.