The cardinal's fortune was estimated at fifty millions.
Mazarin had scarcely finished making his final dispositions when his malady increased to a violent pitch.

"On the 5th of March, forty hours' public prayers were ordered in all the churches of Paris, which is not generally done except in the case of kings," says Madame de Motteville.
The cardinal had sent for M.Jolt, parish-priest of St.Nicholas des Champs, a man of great reputation for piety, and begged him not to leave him.

"I have misgivings about not being sufficiently afraid of death," he said to his confessor.

He felt his own pulse himself, muttering quite low, "I shall have a great deal more to suffer." The king had left him on the 7th of March, in the evening.

He did not see him again and sent to summon the ministers.