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Marie Mancini. Appearance. Anna Maria "Marie" Mancini, Princess of Paliano (28 August 1639 – 8 May 1715) was the third of the five Mancini sisters, nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously.
Marie Mancini was a member of a powerful Roman family and a former lover of King Louis XIV. She fled Rome with her sister in 1672 and wrote letters about her adventures, challenges, and feelings in France.
At the age of 22 in 1661, Marie Mancini, one of the Mazarinettes (as the nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazzarino were collectively known), arrived in Rome as the bride of Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna. Leaving behind Paris and the young Luis XIV, whose heart she had inappropriately conquered, Marie detested the eternal city.
Apr 20, 2009 · Marie Mancini is perhaps better known to readers as Louis XIV's first love than as an independent and fierce personality. Like Hortense, she went through difficult times with her husband, the Constable Colonna.
Mar 30, 2021 · Marie Mancini was a reader, writer, and précieuse, but her surviving writings were produced in service of her real-life circumstances. This article explores Marie's tactics in pursuit of...
Marie Anne Mancini, Duchess of Bouillon (1649 – 20 June 1714), was an Italian-French aristocrat and cultural patron, the youngest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of Louis XIV, King of France as the Mazarinettes, because their uncle was the king's ...
Apr 3, 2012 · 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...
