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Letters: A Bilingual Edition
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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 memoirone of the first to appear in French by a womanand was later magnified by her stint as the royal mistress of Charles II of England and by her estab...
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 memoirone of the first to appear in French by a womanand was later magnified by her stint as the royal mistress of Charles II of England and by her estab...
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