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Letters : A Bilingual Edition - Hortense Mancini

Letters

A Bilingual Edition

By: Hortense Mancini, Annalisa Nicholson (Editor)

Paperback | 18 February 2026 | Edition Number 1

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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 salonniere, 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.

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