by Françoise Mallet-Joris · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253153894
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«Marie Mancini» is the historical novel by Françoise Mallet-Joris, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (286 pages, in French).
The novel reconstructs the life of Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin and first love of Louis XIV, asking whether she was an intriguer or a sincere love of the young king. After a passion broken by reason of state, Marie is removed from court and wanders through Europe; her marriage to an Italian nobleman only affords her a brief respite.
The full title of the work is «Marie Mancini : Le Premier Amour de Louis XIV»; published in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction set in seventeenth-century France and centered on a real female figure.
Françoise Mallet-Joris, the pen name of Françoise Lilar, was a Belgian author. She was a member of the Prix Femina committee from 1969 to 1971 and was appointed to the Académie Goncourt from November 1971 to 2011.
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