Documents the unconventional lives of 17th-century royal sisters Marie and Hortense Mancini, who after abandoning their politically arranged marriages in the court of Louis XIV used the new post coach
In this new study, Elizabeth Goldsmith continues her pursuit of issues treated in her earlier books on conversation, epistolary writing, and the female voice in literature. She examines how French wom
The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power b
