Title : The Little Mazarines - Pierre Combescot - book

Summary :

Master of France during the minority of Louis XIV, a political genius and diplomat, ambitious, seductive, cunning, and greedy, Cardinal Mazarin was keen to share his extraordinary rise with his large family. It is the story of four of his nieces, brought by him to the French court, that the author of Les Filles du Calvaire (Goncourt Prize 1991) tells us here, with as much erudition as gaiety. If history has remembered the name of Marie, Louis XIV's first love who had to part with her for a political marriage, who remembers Marianne, Hortense, and Olympe? Yet their lives are prodigious novels. Adventurers, lovers, scandalous, they led their lives with great ambitions. Two of them almost became queens. Two were compromised in the Affair of the Poisons. Their fame was spectacular, their fall as well. They take us on a sparkling journey to the heart of the century of Louis XIV.

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