Short relation of Kristina's most famous deeds by Gabriel Naudé, year 1673

This brief summary on Kristina's two most famous deeds, her/his/their abdication in 1654 and the execution of Count Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi in 1657, were written by Gabriel Naudé in 1673.

Source:

Science des princes, ou Considerations politiques sur les coups d'etat, par Gabriel Naude,... avecque les reflexions historiques, morales, chretiennes et politiques de L. D. M. C. S. D. S. E, Gabriel Naudé, 1673

https://books.google.com/books?id=iqMWNgnxUOAC&pg=PA365&dq=reyne+christine&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0ks-syLLlAhVOGTQIHXAFBzo4MhC7BTADegQIAhAF#v=onepage&q=reyne%20christine&f=false

The relation:

Nôtre Siecle s'ét étonné de voir que Jean Casimir, qui par un miserable Coup d'État s'étoit opposé à l'Election, que la Reyne Christine de Suede avoit faite de Charles Gustave, Prince Palatin du Rhin, pour regner en sa place, ne peut pas soustenir le Sceptre Polonois, & ou par lâcheté, ou par remors de Conscience d'avoir par un Coup d'Oeconomie, épousé la veuve de son frere, a depuis peu embrassé la vie Ecclesiastique ... La Reyne Christine qui a quité une puissante Couronne, & changé de religion, peut avoir eu des pensées, qui nous sont inconnues; Mais si l'on examine bien sa vie, & ce que l'auteur du voyage d'Espagne dit en la page 223. l'on trouvera, que les Loix de Suede & la volonté du Senat, peuvent avoir contribué à sa resolution. Ces Loix commandent aux Reynes de prendre un Mary, qui agrée aux États de son Royaume; Et peut-étre luy ayant defendu de prendre le Mary, qui luy auroit pû agréer, l'obligerent de ceder son Royaume à son Cousin, & de faire un Coup de Monastique de grande Cõsideration. Au reste, le meurtre, qu'elle fit faire de Monaldesky, dans la Maison du Roy de France, à Fontaine bleau, peut montrer, que cette Reyne ne pouvant pas étre tout à fait bonne, elle tacha de l'étre àdemy. Car elle eut soin de le faire confesser, & voulut sauver son ame, en faisant perir son corps.

English translation (my own):

Our century was astonished to see that Johan Kasimir, who by a miserable coup d'etat had opposed the election, that Queen Kristina of Sweden had made of Karl Gustav, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, to reign in her place, he cannot support the Polish scepter, and either out of cowardice, or by remorse of conscience, to have by a stroke of economy, married the widow of his brother, has lately embraced the ecclesiastical life ... Queen Kristina, who has left a powerful crown, and changed her religion, may have had thoughts which are unknown to us; but if one examines her life well, and what the author of the Spanish journey says on page 223, it will be found that the laws of Sweden and the will of the Senate may have contributed to her resolution. These laws command the queens to take a husband, who agrees to the states of her kingdom; and perhaps forbidding her to take the husband, who would have been able to accept her, obliged her to yield her kingdom to her cousin, and to make a monastic stroke of great consideration. Moreover, the murder, which she had done to Monaldeschi, in the house of the King of France, at Fontainebleau, can show that this queen could not be quite good, she tried to be half of it. For she took care to make him confess, and wished to save his soul, by making his body perish.

Above: Kristina.

Above: Kristina orders Monaldeschi's execution.