He had established a cordial relationship with Richelieu; Richelieu jokingly referred to him as "Rinzama" (an anagram of his name), or "Nunzinicardo" ("dear little envoy), or, most frequently, "Colmarduccio", or "Colmardo". When was asked what it meant. he translated into French as "Frére Coupechou", the term for a junior candidate monk who was assigned to chop cabbage in the kitchen of the abbey. However, he did not send Mazarin on the mission that he most wanted, as delegate of France to a Europe-wide peace conference. Richelieu's attention was devoted to making war; Richelieu, who was elderly and in poor health, took the King, who was also in poor health, the court and Mazarin on a series of long military expeditions, to suppress a rebellion in Catalonia, to capture Roussillon, and, in January 1642, to lay siege to Narbonne.