The Kings' Mistresses (34 page)

23
Charles de Saint-Evremond,
Lettres,
ed. René Ternois (Paris: Didier, 1968), vol. 1, p. 381.

24
Ibid., p. 392.

25
Mongrédien,
Une aventurière au grand siècle,
p. 163.

26
Ibid., p. 165.

27
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné,
Correspondance,
ed. Roger Duchêne (Paris: Gallimard, 1973-1978 ), vol. 3, p. 161.

28
John Evelyn,
Diary and Correspondence
(London: H. Colburn, 1850), vol. 2, p. 210.

1
Marie Mancini,
The Truth in Its Own Light, or: The Genuine Memoirs of M. Mancini, Constabless Colonna
, in Hortense Mancini and Marie Mancini,
Memoirs
, ed. and trans. Sarah Nelson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 161.

2
Lucien Perey [Clara Adèle Luce Herpin],
Une princesse romaine
,
au xvlle siècle
,
Marie Mancini Colonna, d'après des documents inédits
(Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896), pp. 343–344.

3
Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse d'Aulnoy,
Relation du voyage d'Espagne
, ed. Maria Seguin (Paris: Desjonquères, 2005), p. 233.

4
Ibid., pp. 215–216.

5
Colonna Archive, Biblioteca Statale Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, Italy. Letter dated June 26, 1675.

6
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, pp. 350–351.

7
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
p. 162.

8
Colonna Archive, letter dated October 2, 1674.

9
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, p. 368.

10
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
p. 162.

11
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 5, 1675.

12
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 26, 1675.

13
Colonna Archive, letter dated June 12, 1675. Translated by Giovanna Suhl and published in Marie Mancini,
La Vérité dans son jour
, ed. Patricia F. Cholakian and Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998), p. 97.

14
Ibid.

15
Colonna Archive, letter dated August 7, 1675. Translated by Giovanna Suhl and published in Mancini,
La Vérité dans son jour
, p. 100.

16
Hortense Mancini,
Memoirs
, in Nelson,
Memoirs
, p. 27.

17
Anonymous,
Mémoires de M.L.P.M.M. Colonne, G. connétable du royaume de Naples
, published as Marie Mancini,
Cendre et poussière
, ed. Maurice Lever (Paris: Le Comptoir, 1997), p. 33.

18
Ibid., pp. 33–34.

19
Ibid., p. 47.

20
Ibid., p. 49.

21
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
pp. 83–84.

22
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 4, 1677.

23
Mancini,
Truth in Its Own Light,
p. 92.

24
Ibid., p. 92.

25
Ibid., pp. 162–163.

26
Colonna Archive, letter dated September 13, 1677.

27
Ibid., letter dated March 19, 1677.

28
Ibid., letter dated August 2, 1677.

29
Ibid., letter dated March 17, 1677.

30
Claude Dulong,
Marie Mancini, la première passion de Louis XIV
(Paris: Perrin, 1993), p. 275.

1
Toivo Rosvall,
The Mazarine Legacy: The Life of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin
(New York: Viking, 1966), p. 204.

2
Ibid., p. 205.

3
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné,
Correspondance
, ed. Roger Duchêne (Paris: Gallimard, 1973–1976)
,
vol. 3, p. 665.

4
Claude Erard,
Plaidoyé touchant la demande faite par monsieur le duc de Mazarin pour obliger madame la duchesse de Mazarin son epouse de revenir avec luy, après une longue absence, & de quitter l'Angleterre où elle est présentement
(Toulouse: J. J. Boude, 1690), pp. 7, 18.

5
Ibid., pp. 17–18.

6
Ibid., p. 19.

7
Charles de Saint-Evremond, “Factum pour Madame la Duchesse Mazarin, contre Monsieur le Duc Mazarin son mari,” in
Oeuvres choisies
, ed. A. C. Gidel (Paris: Garnier, 1867), pp. 17, 20.

8
Rosvall,
The Mazarine Legacy
, p. 206.

9
Charles de Saint-Evremond,
Lettres
, ed. René Ternois (Paris: Didier, 1968), vol. 2, pp. 147–148.

10
Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 155–156.

11
Lucien Perey [Clara Adèle Luce Herpin],
Une princesse romaine
,
au xvlle siècle
,
Marie Mancini Colonna, d'après des documents inédits
(Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896), p. 398.

12
Colonna Archive, Biblioteca Statale Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, Italy. Letter dated February 1679.

13
Ibid.

14
Ibid., letter dated January 6, 1679.

15
An “agnus dei” is a circular medal made of wax, imprinted with the figure of a lamb and blessed by the pope. Colonna Archive, letter dated March 18, 1679.

16
Ibid., letter dated January 21, 1679.

17
Madame de Villars,
Lettres de Madame la Marquise de Villars, Ambassadrice en Espagne, dans le temps du mariage de Charles II Roi d'Espagne
(Paris: Michel Lambert, 1759), p. 70.

18
Ibid., p. 67.

19
Perey,
Une princesse romaine,
p. 418.

20
Ibid., pp. 423–424.

21
Colonna Archive, letter dated November 18, 1680.

22
Ibid., letter dated December 24, 1680.

23
Ibid., letter dated December 4, 1680.

24
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy,
Memoirs of the Court of Spain
(London: Horn, Saunders and Bennet, 1692)
,
vol. 2, pp. 173–174.

25
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, p. 436.

26
Claude Dulong,
Marie Mancini, la première passion de Louis XIV
(Paris: Perrin, 1993), p. 313.

27
Ibid., pp. 317–318.

28
Perey,
Une princesse romaine
, p. 466.

29
Ibid., p. 468.

30
Mercure historique et politique
(La Haye: Henry Van Dulderen, 1689), vol. 6, p. 609.

31
Dulong,
Marie Mancini
, p. 326.

1
Charles de Saint-Evremond,
Lettres
, ed. René Ternois (Paris: Didier, 1968), vol. 2, p. 203.

2
Colonna Archive, Biblioteca Statale Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, Italy. Letter dated July 26, 1692.

3
Saint-Evremond,
Lettres,
vol. 2, pp. 235–236.

4
Ibid., p. 251.

5
Ibid., p. 281.

6
Ibid., p. 301.

7
Mercure historique et politique
, vol. 27 (1699), p. 108.

8
Colonna Archive, letter dated March 26, 1689.

9
Ibid., letter dated August 1692.

10
Ibid., letter dated June 17, 1693.

11
Ibid., letter dated simply “Paris, 1704.”

12
Lucien Perey [Clara Adèle Luce Herpin],
Une princesse romaine
,
au xvlle siècle
,
Marie Mancini Colonna, d'après des documents inédits
(Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896), p. 521.

13
Ibid., p. 522.

14
It is not known with certainty what became of the Marie Mancini pearl necklace. It is rumored to have been reacquired in the late twentieth century by the Colonna family.

15
Susan Shifrin, ed.,
Re-framing Representations of Women
(Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), p. 200.

Accaioli, Filippo

Adultery

Aix

Albani, Francesco

Alcazar fortress (Segovia)

Alexander VII (Pope)

Alicidiane
(Molière)

Alphonse VI

Alsace

Altieri (Cardinal)

Anne (Queen).
See also
Queen regent (France)

Anne of Sussex.
See
Sussex, Countess of

Antwerp/Anvers

Ariosto

Arnoux, Monsieur

Art

beauties series (portraits)

mutilation of Mazarin art collection

paintings and statuary in palazzo Colonna

See also
Mancini, Hortense: portraits of: Mancini, Marie: portraits of

Ascanio (Reverend Father)

Astell, Mary

Astorga, Marquis of

Astrology

Astronomy

Auto-da-fé

Avenay convent

Ballet and opera.
See also
Dance; Theatre

Bandits

Barberini, Antonio (Cardinal)

Barillon, Paul de

Bartet (informant)

Basset card game.
See also
Gambling

Basset Table, The
(Centlivre)

Behn, Aphra

Belbeuf, Jacques

Bellinzani, Madame

Benedetti, Elpidio

Benserade, Isaac de

Berenice
(Racine)

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo

Bisexuality.
See also
Mancini, Hortense: sexual attraction for other women

Blackmail

Boniel (chaplain)

Borgomanero.
See
D'Este, Carlo Emanuele, Marquis of Borgomanero

Bouillon, Duchess of.
See also
Mancini, Marianne

Brandenburg

Brittany

Brouage

Brussels, convent in

Bubonic plague

counterfeit bills of health for

Cabrera, Don Juan de, Admiral of Castile

Caesarea (Archbishop)

Campo Marzio, convent in

Carlos II

death of

remarriage of

Carnival season.
See also under
Rome

Castille, Admiral of.
See
Cabrera, Don Juan de, Admiral of Castile

Castor and Pollux

Catherine of Braganza

Catholicism.
See also
Religion: Protestants vs. Catholics; Vatican

Cavagnino (musician)

Cavoye, Marquis de

Centlivre, Susanna

Cesti (composer)

Chambéry

castle at

provincial nobility in

Chapelain (writer)

Charles de Lorraine (Prince)

Charles-Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy

death of

and Marie

son of

Charles I

Charles II

brother of(
see also
James II)

conspiracy to assassinate

death of

and Louis XIV

marriage of

mistresses/children of

as pleasure king

sister of

supplying money for Hortense

tolerance of

withdrawing affection for Hortense(
see also
Mancini, Hortense: as mistress of Charles II)

Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Chigi, Fabio.
See also
Alexander VII (Pope)

Chigi, Flavio

Childbirth, deaths in

China

Christina (Queen of Sweden)

Church of the College of Four Nations

Cibo (Cardinal)

Chinea
(social ritual)

Civitavecchia, Italy

Claude Lorrain

Clement IX (Pope)

Clement X (Pope)

Clothing.
See also
Lace

Coffists

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste

Colbert, Nicolas

Coleman, Edward

Cologne

Colonna, Carlo

Colonna, Don Ferdinando

Colonna, Filippo

death of

remarriage of

Colonna, Lorenzo Onofrio

agents/spies of

as art/theatre patron

death of

family in Madrid

half brother of

health of

and Hortense

letters to Louis XIV

as loving Marie

in Madrid

and Marie's escape from Rome (
see also
Colonna, Lorenzo Onofrio: agents/spies of)

and Marie's health

mistresses/children of (
see also
Mancini, Marie: children of)

sister of

sponsoring spectacles

as Viceroy of Aragon

as violent

wedding gift to Marie by

will of

Colonna, Marcantonio (military hero)

Colonna, Marcantonio (son of Marie and Lorenzo)

Concerts

Confidence men

Conti, Armand de (Prince)

Convent of the Visitation (Paris)

Convent of the Visitation (Turin)

Convents.
See also individual convents

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
(Fontenelle)

Coresi, Antonia and Nicolo

Corneille, Pierre

Courbeville (squire)

incarcerated in Civitavecchia

Courcelles, Marie-Sidonie de

Coureuse
(loose woman)