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- The first translated collection of Hortense Mancini's correspondence. During the seventeenth century, Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (1646-99), became an icon of women's emancipation. In 1668, she shocked Europe when she fled her coercive husband and began a nomadic exile. Her notoriety increased in 1675 with the publication of her memoir-one of the first to appear in French by a woman-and was later magnified by her stint as the royal mistress of Charles II of England and by her establishment of a freethinking salon in London. As a salonnière, an exile, and a litigant fighting for legal separation from her husband, Mancini's letters were a means of connection, collusion, and survival as well as cultural collaboration. Collected and translated here for the first time, this correspondence charts her struggle for autonomy in her own words.
- About The Author
- Hortense Mancini was Duchess of Mazarin and the author of a memoir and many letters.
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- ISBN
- 9781649591319
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Iter Press, (06 February 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 23 mm
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