As mentioned before, personal feelings always have to give way to national affairs, and although Philippe, Duke of Anjou, was still depressed, Marie Mancini was preoccupied, and the king could only give the former a promise to go on a safari with Versailles, and then give the latter permission to enter and leave the king's study at any time, and then continue to work for the sake of France—the most important of which was probably the plan mentioned by the bishop Mazarin to make Madame Christina Alexandra the queen of Naples.

First of all, we should mention the history of Naples, which is a combination of the region of southern Italy and Sicily, which was jointly occupied by the Byzantines, Lombards and Turks, and later the Normans drove them all out and divided it into a state, Naples, but it was never recognized by the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, and decades later, the area was taken by the Holy Roman Emperor of the House of Hohenstaufen, but in 1266, Charles of Anjou, younger brother of King Louis IX of France, acquired the country at the request of the Pope- Of course, at that time, Clement IV was a French pope, and everyone knew very well where this request came from - at that time, the last person of the Hohenstaufen family, the well-born Ladin, resolutely raised an army against Charles, but was defeated and captured, and then in the acquiescence of the pope and the uproar of the people, Charles did not hesitate to cut off the head of the well-born Latin, so that the family was extinct, and also eliminated the last bit of trouble they might bring.

After this, Charles moved the capital from Sicily to Naples, showing his ambitions, but like every ruler, he was not friendly to the people of Naples, and he was reckless and reckless, which led to the famous Sicilian Vespers riots, which split Sicily from Naples and became the property of the Spanish royal family of Aragonese - At the beginning of the fourteenth century, Naples prospered briefly for a while, but from the late fourteenth century to the early fifteenth century, the Anjou royal family was at war, and as a result, Alfonso V of Spain became a fisherman in a battle between the cleats and mussels, and in 1443 he used the title of the Two Sicilies, referring to both Naples and Sicily. In 1495, it was recaptured by King Charles VIII of France, but within a decade of time, Spain took control of both regions, and then Spain did not hesitate to tear it out, triggering the Massanielo Affair, which was not long before, in July of '47.

If it weren't for the chaos in France at that time, Bishop Mazaran would have had the intention to intervene, and now too, the Neapolitans are full of anger and resentment towards the Spaniards, and with a little provocation, it will not be difficult for the Sicilian Vespers and the Massanielo affair to be repeated, and then they can introduce the former Queen of Sweden, among the nobility, Christina's reputation is not bad, because she has always been keen to canonize the nobility as a way to consolidate her rule, but the merchants and officials do not like her, and perhaps the commoners, perhaps because she was too extravagant as queen- She was a profligate, but that was true to every king at the time.

It is very simple for her to become the ruler of Naples, the support of France, the recognition of the Roman Church, the promise to the Neapolitans not to impose taxes arbitrarily, and perhaps to marry and have children, these things are not difficult, the problem is the attitude of the French king and the bishop, she has a room of her own in the Louvre, but she stays more with the queen mother, so as to win the favor of the queen mother, she also intends to welcome the king, she does not give the king expensive gifts, but gives him one person - René Descartes.

René Descartes as a philosopher, physicist, mathematician, Theologian, favored by the former Queen Christina of Sweden, but the Church of Rome hated him, because although he always insisted that he was a devout Catholic, he always preached secret deism and atheism, and the French mathematician, one of the king's teachers, Bryce Pascal, accused the old man that there was no God in his philosophy, and he did not need God, but God, he should not have said such a thing, because he had made Louis interested in it, and he asked Bishop Mazarin to find him Descartes's book, among themThe Geometry and the Opticals and the Meteorology were on the king's bookshelf, and when Madame Christina saw it, she told the king that she would be more than willing to let Monsieur Descartes come to France, for he was a rare and witty, erudite, and interesting scholar—and when the king heard this, he asked her to write to Monsieur de Cartes, and to have two trusted men as messengers to meet the old man.

Descartes was born in 1596, and after winning the admiration of the Queen of Sweden, he decided to move to Sweden, even though Her Majesty reminded him that the cold weather in Sweden was not suitable for an old man, but a few years earlier, he had a serious illness, and on the advice of the doctor, he returned to the Netherlands, only because of the hostility of the Church, and he was not so happy- With the invitation of the King of France, he naturally gladly obeyed his fate and came to Paris, where the Count of d'Artagnan found him a place to live outside the Louvre, and the King gave him a sum of money to settle in— He had no wife or children, so he became unusually generous at once, let alone the favor of the king, and he was at once the guest of honour at all parties, served by servants, and well fed with fine food and warm clothing, and Monsieur Descartes soon became well, and though he was not as young as a young man, he was able to ride horses and play tennis, but most of the time he preferred to lie down in that large comfortable bed and let his mind run freely.

It was a gift that the king liked, and the king talked to her several times, but it was precisely because of this that Louis felt that Madame Christina was too much to be a king, that she was too rich in emotions, too complex in thought, too easily driven by her own personal feelings, and too paranoid in her character, which were minor flaws for a noblewoman, but which would be infinitely magnified by her enemies for the ruler.

He spoke to Bishop Mazarin, and then Mr. Bishop rightly said: "It is because she is such a person that we need her to be the queen of Naples." ”

This sentence made Louis laugh dumbly, yes, their original intention was not to find a real, authoritative and capable monarch for Naples, but to build a solid barrier between France and Spain.

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But the last thing they wanted happened, just as Cristina was about to leave for Pesaro, where she was waiting for the final outcome of the negotiations between Naples and the French, a group of emissaries from Spain suddenly appeared in Paris, and their arrival caused the Bishop of Mazarin to immediately suspend the plan and threaten to die.

Christina, of course, was indignant at this, who had leaked the secret? She had come to Paris, nominally to intercede with her cousin, now the King of Sweden, about her annuity, and very few people knew about it, almost a handful.

"I'm going to find that person. She said this to the king, and in the name of pilgrimage she went to Avignon.