Letters: A Bilingual Edition Volume 112 [French]

By Hortense Mancini

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 salonni re, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 1649591314
• ISBN13: 9781649591319
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 180 Pages