Note 227 — Chapter III · 1642 to 1644.
Frederick W. (Frederick William) Ricord translation
There is not, we believe, or at least we do not know that there is, any portrait painted or engraved of Mazarin in his youth. He was but forty-one years of age in 1643, and a portrait by M. Lasne represents him then with a face still handsome, in which delicacy is united with grandeur.