| Description |
xiv, 466 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Maps on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-449) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Princesse Nièce. A long journey ; Glénay ; Richelieu ; Uncle Armand's fortunes ; A political marriage ; Paris ; Antoine ; Carmel de l'Incarnation ; The young cardinal's ward ; Serving Marie de' Medici ; A pivotal year ; The blue room ; Uncle Armand's triumph ; The cardinal-minister's reluctant aide ; The coup d'état ; An abduction plot ; "Demi-vierge" ; A budding friendship ; A new kind of literary patroness ; Falling in love ; La valette ; Chosen ; The investiture ; Heartbreak ; A new relationship ; Across the Atlantic ; Childlessness ; Political storms ; Uncle Armand's death ; The will ; Burying the prime minister -- Pair de France. Uncle Armand's papers ; Rueil ; Patroness of a saint ; Tunis and Algiers ; Reforming the clergy ; Saint-Sulpice ; Inheritance disputes ; A wedding ; Civil war ; A tenuous peace ; The Duc de Richelieu's rebellion ; Cardinal Mazarin's "most dangerous enemy" ; The sun king rising ; Governor of Le Havre ; The petit Luxembourg ; A jesuit visitor ; Negotiating with the pope ; Saint Vincent ; Missions for France ; Madagascar ; Ventures in the near east ; "Précieuse ridicule" ; Uncle Armand's legacy ; Family tragedies ; Breast cancer ; Carmel once more ; A forgotte "femme forte" -- Author's afterword. |
| Summary |
"A rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society--and who would come to rule them both"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Aiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, duchesse d', 1604-1675.
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Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642 -- Family.
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Aiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, duchesse d', 1604-1675 -- Influence.
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Nobility -- France -- Biography.
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France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
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France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Life of Marie de Vignerot |
| ISBN |
9781639363476 hc. |
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1639363475 hc. |
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