HISTORICAL PROLOGUE 1 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/civilwar/g5/cs1/s5.2 Philippe Erlanger, The Age of Courts and Kings (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), p. 209.3 Joan DeJean, The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour (New York: Free Press, 2005), p. 208.4 John Lough, France Observed in the Seventeenth Century by British Travellers (London: Oriel Press, 1985), p. 149. CHAPTER 1 THE CARDINAL’S NIECES AT THE COURT OF FRANCE 1 Marie Mancini, The Truth in Its Own Light, or: The Genuine Memoirs of M. Mancini, Constabless Colonna, in Hortense Mancini and Marie Mancini, Memoirs, ed. and trans. Sarah Nelson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 85.2 Ibid., p. 86.3 Ibid., p. 87.4 Ibid., p. 90.5 Pierre Adolphe Chéruel, ed., Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier (Paris: Charpentier, 1859), vol. 3, p. 352.6 Françoise Bertaut de Motteville, Memoirs of Madame de Motteville on Anne of Austria and Her Court, trans.
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