La Duchesse : : the Life of Marie de Vignerot : Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress who Shaped the Fate of France
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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.
"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
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PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023
Year Published: 2023
Description: xiv, 466 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781639363476
1639363475
SUBJECTS
Aiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, -- duchesse d', -- 1604-1675.
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, -- duc de, -- 1585-1642 -- Family.
Aiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, -- duchesse d', -- 1604-1675 -- Influence.
Nobility -- France -- Biography.
France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643.