Excerpt from Queen and Cardinal: A Memoir of Anne of Austria and of Her Relations With Cardinal Mazarin N the following account of the life of Anne of Austria I Wish at once to disclaim any idea of posing as a writer of history. The period embraced by the memoirs of this remarkable woman - one of the most important queens-regent who were ever called upon to act the part of a sovereign - is a very attractive one. The alliance of Bourbon and Hapsburg initiates a new era, in which dynastic considerations are all important, but the larger facts of the histories of France and Europe in the seventeenth century have been treated by many able historians, and do not enter into the scope or intention of these pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.