In 1651 when Mazarin had been forced into exile, the Prince was for a time brought onto the conseil du roi, and an ( admittedly very hostile ) contemporary the duchesse de Nemours described him as a ' prime minister without being aware of it '; there were suggestions that Mazarin's opponents within the court had raised him up as a rival to the cardinal with the Queen, but this is unlikely, especially since Mazarin himself urged the Queen to follow Thomas ' advice, and it is more probable that Mazarin backed the Prince as someone who would keep other rivals from gaining control in his absence but who would never have the status within France to set himself up as a permanent replacement for the Cardinal.

In 1651 when Mazarin had been forced into exile, the Prince was for a time brought onto the conseil du roi, and an ( admittedly very hostile ) contemporary the duchesse de Nemours described him as a ' prime minister without being aware of it '; there were suggestions that Mazarin's opponents within the court had raised him up as a rival to the cardinal with the Queen, but this is unlikely, especially since Mazarin himself urged the Queen to follow Thomas ' advice, and it is more probable that Mazarin backed the Prince as someone who would keep other rivals from gaining control in his absence but who would never have the status within France to set himself up as a permanent replacement for the Cardinal.

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