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Memoirs : Hortense Mancini and Marie Mancini / edited and translated by Sarah Nelson.
LIBRA DC130.A2 M4613 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe
- The other voice in early modern Europe
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699--Diaries.
- Mazarin, Hortense Mancini.
- Mancini, Maria, 1639-1715--Diaries.
- Mancini, Maria.
- Mancini, Maria, 1639-1715.
- Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.
- Courts and courtiers.
- France.
- France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715--Sources.
- History.
- France--Court and courtiers--Diaries.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 217 pages : genealogical table, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- The memoirs of Hortense (1646-1699) and Marie (1639-1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married-Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king-the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day.
- Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court-and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated into English in 1676 and 1679 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible new translation that chronicles the beginnings of women's rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.
- Contents:
- The Memoirs of Hortense and Marie Mancini 1
- To M.*** [The Memoirs of Hortense Mancini] 27
- The Truth in Its Own Light / Marie Mancini 82
- A Genealogical Chart of the Mazzarino and Mancini Families 175
- B Map of Present-day Western Europe 177
- C Map of Present-day France 179
- D Map of Present-day Italy 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-202) and index.
- Translated from the French.
- Contains:
- Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699. Mémoires. English.
- Mancini, Maria, 1639-1715. Apologie. English
- ISBN:
- 9780226502786
- 0226502783
- 9780226502793
- 0226502791
- OCLC:
- 175283888
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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