The memoirs of Cardinal de Retz cover all the great events during the minority of Louis XIV and the administration of Cardinal Mazarin.The author, John Francis Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Sovereign of Commercy, Prince of Euville, second Archbishop of Paris, Abbot of Saint Denis in France, was born at Montmirail, in Brie, in 1614, and died in Paris in 1679.This history was first printed in Paris in 1705.