The cardinal's enemies represented him as a new Luther ready to excite a schism and found a patriarchate in France.

Father Rabardeau, of the Jesuits' order, maintained, in reply, that the act would not be schismatical, and that the consent of Rome would be no more necessary to create a patriarchate in France than it had been to establish those of Constantinople and Jerusalem.
Urban VIII.

took fright; he sent to France Julius Mazarin, at that time vice-legate, and already frequently employed in the negotiations between the court of Rome and Cardinal Richelieu, who had taken a great fancy to him.

The French clergy had just obtained authority to vote the subsidy in an assembly; and the pope contented himself with this feeble concession.

Mazarin put the finishing touch to the reconciliation, and received as recompense the cardinal's hat.