mazarinade

1. (historical) A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.Examples: "More important for our purposes, the mazarinade confirms the tenacious image of the captal as an uncivilized tyrant whose visible presence at the heart of the city in Puy-Paulin was an offense to the city's dignity."; "In one of the most infamous of the scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlets known an mazarinades which appeared at this time, the Contrat de mariage, the constitution was figured not as a marriage between king and nation but as a union between Parlement and the people of Paris […]"; "One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy."historical