MAZARIN Jules (1602-1661), cardinal et homme d'État

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MAZARIN Jules (1602-1661), cardinal et homme d'État
L.A.S. "Le Cardl Mazarini" (the beginning of the letter is dictated to a secretary), Saint-Jean de Luz August 18, 1659, to Mme de VENEL, in La Rochelle; 2 1/2 pages in-4, addressed with red wax seals (broken). A curious letter to the governess of his nieces, written a few days after he had started the negotiations of the Peace of the Pyrenees, and when he was very irritated by the passion between his niece Marie Mancini and the young Louis XIV. He already knew that the Queen would write to him to take his nieces to Saint-Jean d'Angély, and His Majesty can freely dispose of everything that is his. "You tell me that my nieces had written very civil letters to Me the Princess of CONTY and Me the Countess of SOISSONS but you do not tell me that they made this great effort the day before their departure from La Rochelle even though you know that I had made them aware enough that they should not delay a moment in making this civility, but my niece [MARIE MANCINI] knows better how to behave than I do, and thank God she has too much spirit to be able to decide to go against anyone's advice. I even see with great pleasure that she is leading Hortense into all these resolutions, but I am not surprised because my niece will have persuaded her that conforming to her will will make her have a great fortune, and Hortense, who is still a child, must believe this as a Gospel. I have been told by the Court that not only have her and her sister not visited the Pe de Conty and the Countess who had invited them to dinner, but that they have not spoken to her, so see if this is good and if they are not right to make fun of it. I promise you that the Court is scandalized by this, and that it is annoying that my girls, by their bad behavior, give everyone cause to make fun of them. I would be delighted to know what Marie thinks, and if with all the flattery that the makers of oroscopes do to her, she does not know that she has taken the path of being the most unhappy of her century, she will see without being able to remedy it, that I was not mistaken in my calculation and that all the follies that she has put in her mind will only make her miserable"...
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