Opposing in many ways the fiscal ascendancy led by a monarchy on its way to absolutism, the 1648 Fronde-the one whose dynamics address political and social stakes-intends on the contrary on these aspects to turn towards a mythified past, genuinely regarded as a Golden Age. The tax system it dreams of belongs to the Middle Ages, a time when royal taxation was defined within an extraordinary and temporary framework. To the authoritarian tax system which has prevailed since the beginning of the XVIIth century, the first Fronde opposes the gift consented by the taxpayer following a negotiated process. This vigorous protest against the strengthening of an administrative monarchy finds within the mazarinades a forceful juridical support. In this corpus of politically-oriented lampoons, published during the four years of struggling between the Prime Minister on one hand, and the Parliament, the princes and the Parisian bourgeoisie on the other hand, what shows through are effectively a general theory of the royal right to impose, its conditions of existence and the limits to its implementation, namely the consent of the inhabitants of the kingdom.