Ce travail de recherche s’intéresse aux rapports entre les mazarinades et la Normandie. Le premier de ces rapports est d’ordre bibliographique. Il concerne à la fois la répartition matérielle des mazarinades en Normandie mais aussi le corpus normand de mazarinades. Cette dimension bibliographique permet d’appréhender le corpus normand dans l’ensemble des mazarinades et de le définir afin d’en cerner les enjeux. Au sein d’une littérature politisée axée sur la représentation des pouvoirs, le corpus normand interroge les diverses représentations de la Normandie et le rôle politique dont celles-ci font l’objet pendant la Fronde. Que ce soit par les actions accomplies, par les discours de et sur les Normands ou par les diverses mises en scène, toute une stratégie est déployée pour faire intervenir les Normands. Les mazarinades, qu’elles soient normandes ou parisiennes, qu’elles soient frondeuses ou royales, instrumentalisent une représentation politisée de la Normandie. Cette représentation est une mise en abîme de la tension entre les pouvoirs traditionnels et le centralisme étatique. Ce faisant, les mazarinades traitant de la Normandie dépassent l’illusion d’une littérature régionale pour intégrer le champ de la littérature d’État. / This work seeks to analyze the links between the mazarinades and Normandy. The first link is bibliographic. It focuses both on the repartition of the mazarinades in Normandy and on the Norman corpus. This bibliographic point of view aims to comprehend and define the Norman corpus in order to understand its stakes. At the heart of a politicized literature based on the representation of power, the Norman corpus examines the multiples representations of Normandy as well as their political role during the Fronde. Thanks to the actions taken and recounted in the booklets, to the views expressed by and about the Normans, or to the various staging of events, a whole strategy is put into place to encourage Norman intervention. The mazarinades, be they Norman or Parisian, royalist or frondeur, construct a network of texts and images in order to exploit the representation of Normandy as a political instrument and the centralizing tendencies of the state. In so doing, the mazarinades that deal with Normandy transcend the illusion of a regional literature to become a literature of state.

In 1649, during the Fronde Parlementaire (1648-1650), Paris was teetering between opposing political camps that were trying to seize control of the city. The city's bourgeois parliament, in open rebellion to the political policies of King Louis XIV's Chief Minister, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, was raising an army and threatening to oust the Italian imposter. With the rise in violence within the city limits, Parisian printers and booksellers began circulating political propaganda in the form of booklets, mini-plays, brochures, and pamphlets that came to be known as mazarinades. Because these mazarinades—which took their name from the very man they were either attacking or defending—were often scathing in their criticism of the political forces at play within the city, they were rarely attributed to an identifiable author. But while the minds behind the matter were usually anonymous, the authors of the mazarinades made frequent reference to specific public places within Paris in an attempt to rally support to their cause. These public places, especially the Bourbon-constructed projects of the Pont-Neuf and the Place Royale, were depicted in new ways to transform Parisian perceptions of the functionality of those places and to alter the relationship between the city's inhabitants and their Bourbon royal family. This was done in an effort to manipulate public opinion and to redefine the urban culture of the city during the conflict.This thesis demonstrates that the mazarinades were altering their Parisian readers' perceptions of the Pont-Neuf and the Place Royale as they tried to sway public opinion in favor of their authors' partisan viewpoints of the citywide conflict. By appropriating these places and subsequently attributing specific political viewpoints and behaviors to their visitors, the authors of the mazarinades sought to change the way Parisians perceived those places and thus redirect the political atmosphere of the city. Public space became the critical intersection of the many political camps and emerged as a major thematic element in the many mazarinades circulating throughout Paris at that time.

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