The first was the effort to institute mediation between King Charles the First and his Parliament, attempted by Cardinal Mazarin, that powerful minister, who, during the minority of Louis the Fourteenth, swayed France.
Sumner references a historical attempt at mediation during a critical conflict in England's history.
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