Abstract
The correspondence between Louis-Antoine de Noailles, archbishop of Paris in 1695, and the procurator-general of the order of Minims, Father Zacharie Roslet, enables us to examine the networks of influence of France’s prelates in the Eternal City. Made a cardinal in consistory in June 1700, Noailles was at the epicentre of particularly complex power networks. The death of Innocent XII in September of that year led to a conclave in which the new prince of the church took on the role of an extraordinary ambassador of France for the election of the new sovereign pontiff. Both diplomats and believers, cardinals are the key figures in the study of the links between the church and politics in the early modern period.
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