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092			_aAiguillo M. _bM175
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100	1		_aMcShea, Bronwen, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLa Duchesse : _bthe life of Marie de Vignerot : Cardinal Richelieu's forgotten heiress who shaped the fate of France / _cBronwen McShea.
246	3	0	_aDuchesse
246	3	0	_aLife of Marie de Vignerot
250			_aFirst Pegasus books cloth edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPegasus Books, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_axiv, 466 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPrologue -- Princesse Nièce. A long journey ; Glénay ; Richelieu ; Uncle Armand's fortunes ; A political marriage ; Paris ; Antoine ; Carmel de l'Incarnation ; The young cardinal's ward ; Serving Marie de' Medici ; A pivotal year ; The blue room ; Uncle Armand's triumph ; The cardinal-minister's reluctant aide ; The coup d'état ; An abduction plot ; "Demi-vierge" ; A budding friendship ; A new kind of literary patroness ; Falling in love ; La valette ; Chosen ; The investiture ; Heartbreak ; A new relationship ; Across the Atlantic ; Childlessness ; Political storms ; Uncle Armand's death ; The will ; Burying the prime minister -- Pair de France. Uncle Armand's papers ; Rueil ; Patroness of a saint ; Tunis and Algiers ; Reforming the clergy ; Saint-Sulpice ; Inheritance disputes ; A wedding ; Civil war ; A tenuous peace ; The Duc de Richelieu's rebellion ; Cardinal Mazarin's "most dangerous enemy" ; The sun king rising ; Governor of Le Havre ; The petit Luxembourg ; A jesuit visitor ; Negotiating with the pope ; Saint Vincent ; Missions for France ; Madagascar ; Ventures in the near east ; "Précieuse ridicule" ; Uncle Armand's legacy ; Family tragedies ; Breast cancer ; Carmel once more ; A forgotten "femme forte" -- Author's afterword.
520			_a"A rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society--and who would come to rule them both"-- _cProvided by publisher
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 397-449) and index.
520			_aMarie de Vignerot was intended to lead an ordinary aristocratic life, produce heirs, and quietly assist the men in her family rise to prominence. Instead she was married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew, became a widow at eighteen, and rose to become the indispensable and highly visible right-hand of the most powerful figure in French politics: the ruthless Cardinal Richelieu. As the Cardinal lay dying, he broke with tradition and entrusted her, above his male heirs, with his vast fortune. McShea shows how Marie would go on to shape her country's political, religious, and cultural life. As the unconventional and independent Duchesse d'Aiguillon, her life reverberated across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas-- yet she was all but forgotten in modern times. -- adapted from jacket
600	1	0	_aAiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, _cduchesse d', _d1604-1675.
650		0	_aNobility _zFrance _vBiography. _9176073
600	1	0	_aRichelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, _cduc de, _d1585-1642 _xFamily.
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory _yLouis XIV, 1643-1715. _993425
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory _yLouis XIII, 1610-1643.
600	1	0	_aAiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, _cduchesse d', _d1604-1675 _xInfluence.
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