Mcshea Bronwen
Mcshea Bronwen - La Duchesse The Life Of Marie De Vignerot Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped The Fate Of France - Hardcover
Mcshea Bronwen - La Duchesse The Life Of Marie De Vignerot Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped The Fate Of France - Hardcover
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Description: 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. Married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew Marie 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 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. Richelieu was her uncle and as he lay dying the Cardinal broke with tradition and entrusted her above his male heirs with his vast fortune. She would go on to shape her country's political religious and cultural life as the unconventional and independent Duchesse d Aiguillon in ways that reverberated across Europe Africa Asia and the Americas. Marie de Vignerot was respected beloved and feared by churchmen statesmen financiers writers artists and even future canonized saints. Many would owe their careers and eventual historical legacies to her patronage and her enterprising labor and vision. Pope Alexander VII and even the Sun King Louis XIV would defer to her. She was one of the most intelligent accomplished and occasionally ruthless French leaders of the seventeenth century. Yet as all too often happens to great women in history she was all but forgotten by modern times. La Duchesse is the first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot putting her onto center stage in the histories of France and the globalizing Catholic Church where she belongs. In these pages we see Marie navigate scandalous accusations and intrigue to creatively and tenaciously champion the people and causes she cared about. We also see her engage with fascinating personalities such as Queen Marie de M dici and influence French imperial ambitions and the Fronde Civil War. Filled with adventure and daring art and politics La Duchesse establishes Vignerot as a figure without whom France's storied Golden Age cannot be fully understood.
Title: La Duchesse The Life Of Marie De Vignerot Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped The Fate Of France
Author(s): Mcshea Bronwen
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Barcode: 9781639363476
Pages: 480 Pages, 16 Pages Of Color Photographs
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: European History
Description: 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. Married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew Marie 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 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. Richelieu was her uncle and as he lay dying the Cardinal broke with tradition and entrusted her above his male heirs with his vast fortune. She would go on to shape her country's political religious and cultural life as the unconventional and independent Duchesse d Aiguillon in ways that reverberated across Europe Africa Asia and the Americas. Marie de Vignerot was respected beloved and feared by churchmen statesmen financiers writers artists and even future canonized saints. Many would owe their careers and eventual historical legacies to her patronage and her enterprising labor and vision. Pope Alexander VII and even the Sun King Louis XIV would defer to her. She was one of the most intelligent accomplished and occasionally ruthless French leaders of the seventeenth century. Yet as all too often happens to great women in history she was all but forgotten by modern times. La Duchesse is the first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot putting her onto center stage in the histories of France and the globalizing Catholic Church where she belongs. In these pages we see Marie navigate scandalous accusations and intrigue to creatively and tenaciously champion the people and causes she cared about. We also see her engage with fascinating personalities such as Queen Marie de M dici and influence French imperial ambitions and the Fronde Civil War. Filled with adventure and daring art and politics La Duchesse establishes Vignerot as a figure without whom France's storied Golden Age cannot be fully understood.
Title: La Duchesse The Life Of Marie De Vignerot Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped The Fate Of France
Author(s): Mcshea Bronwen
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Barcode: 9781639363476
Pages: 480 Pages, 16 Pages Of Color Photographs
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: European History
