Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau ("The Two Days, or The Water Carrier") is an opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini, with a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, Bouilly claimed he took the story from a real life incident during the French Revolution but, for fear of censorship, he moved the action back to 1647 and the time of Cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin, Duke of Rethel, Mayenne and Nevers, was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician, who served as the Chief Minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 until his death, in what year?