Source:
Queen Christina of Sweden: Lothian Prize Essay for 1880, page 69, by Arthur Henry Hardinge, 1880; original at the University of Michigan
The essay:
Christina remained about a year at Hamburg, and returned to Rome in 1662. Always restless and ambitious, she was at one time trying to induce the great powers to make common cause against the Turks, on behalf of the Republic of Venice; at another, she was engaged in mixing herself up in the quarrel which had arisen between the courts of Rome and France, in consequence of the attack made on the French ambassador, the Duc de Créqui, by the Pope's Corsican guards. But she found that her good offices were despised by those to whom they were offered. Louis XIV. replied that he regretted her having taken the trouble to send her envoy, Alibert, on a mission which did not deserve her attention; and, without paying the least regard to her appeals on behalf of the Pope, occupied Avignon and compelled the Court of Rome to send two Cardinals to apologise at Paris, and to erect a monument commemorating the expulsion of the Corsican guard, the disbanding of which was insisted on by the French.
Above: Kristina.
Above: Pope Alexander VII.
Above: King Louis XIV of France.
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