The Kings' Mistresses (36 page)

Mustapha (servant)

Namur, battle of

Nancy, France

Nanette.
See
Rocour, Nanette De

Nanon (servant)

Naples, Kingdom of

Narcisse (manservant)

Necromancy

Nevers, France

Nine Years War

Nolende (valet)

Notre Dame de Liesse church

Notre-Dame-des-Chelles convent

Notre Dame du Lys Cistercian abbey

Oates, Titus

Odyssey
(Homer)

“On Friendship” (Saint-Evremond)

“On Marriage” (Astell)

Opera.
See
Ballet and opera

Order of Calatrava in Madrid

Orlier, Monsieur

Orsini family

Ottoman Empire

Ovid

Paleotti, Christina

Pamphili, Olympia

Pamphlets

Paris

College of Four Nations in

Passionate love, views of

Patin, Guy

Pelletier (valet)

Perrin, Pierre

Pets

Philip V

Philippe d'Orleans

Pierre de Marteau (pseudonym)

Pirates

Pisa, Italy

burial of Marie Mancini Colonna in

Pleasure

Poison

Polastron (agent of Duke Mazarin)

Pomponne, Arnauld de

Portugal, princess of

Postal service

between England and France

Poullain de la Barre, François

Property, legal division of

rights of women to own property

Protestants.
See also
Religion: Protestants vs. Catholics

Protocol

Quadruple Alliance

Queen of Sweden

Queen regent (France).
See also
Anne (Queen)

Rabutin, Roger de, Count of Bussy

Racine, Jean

Regnard, Jean

Religion

Protestants vs. Catholics

Remedies to Love
(Ovid)

Richelieu

Riots

Roads

Rochefoucauld, François de La

Rocour, Nanette De

Rohan, Chevalier de

Rome

carnival season in

dramatic arts in

gazettes in

Piazza Navona in

Saint Trinita dei Monti church in

See also
Women: Roman norms concerning

Rossan, Diane-Elisabeth de, Marquise de Ganges

Royal Society of London

Ruvigny, Henri de

Sachot (lawyer)

Saint Bernard Pass

Sainte-Marie de Chaillot convent

Saint-Evremond, Charles de

letters to Hortense

money loaned to Hortense

Saint Gotthard Pass

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Saint-Maurice, Count of

Saint-Réal, César Vichard de

Saint-Simon, Jean-Baptiste de

San Jeronimo convent in Madrid

Santo Domingo el Real convent in Madrid

Saragossa, Spain

Savoie, Marie Louise Gabriele de

Savoie Nemours, Marie de

Savoy (independent state).
See also
Chambéry

Savoy, Duke of.
See also
Charles-Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy

Schor, Paul

Science

Scotland

Scudéry, Madeleine de

Seneca

Sévigné, Madame de

Silvestre, Pierre

Smallpox

Soissons, Count of

Soissons, Philippe de

Spain

council of state

and France

King of Spain(
see also
Carlos II)

queen regent of

ratification of treaty with France

Spanish Flanders/Netherlands

women's acceptable behavior in

See also
D'Orléans, Marie-Louise (Princess/Queen); Madrid; Marie-Thérèse (Princess); Saragossa, Spain

Spectacle

Steenkerque, battle of

Stella, Ortensia (Countess)

children fathered by Lorenzo

as mistress of Lorenzo Colonna

Storms

Sussex, Countess of

Sweden.
See also
Christina (Queen of Sweden)

Swimming

Switzerland

Tasso

Taxes

Theatre.
See also
Ballet and opera

Titus
(Cesti)

Travel by boat

Travel Journal
(Belbeuf)

Treason

Treaties

Truth in Its Own Light, The; or, The Genuine Memoirs of M. Mancini, Constabless Colonna
.
See also
Mancini, Marie: memoirs of

Turin, Italy

Turkey

Vallot, Antoine

Varillas (archivist/historian)

Vatican

Venelle, Madame de

Venice

Versailles

Villars, Madame and Monsieur de

Villiers, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland

Virgil

Voet, Jacob-Ferdinand

William of Orange

Women

freedom/autonomy of

clothing of Italian/Spanish women (
see also
Clothing)

corporal punishment for

deaths in childbirth

incarcerated

living apart from husbands (
see also
Marriage: legal status of married women)

loose women

murdered by husbands

a new “class of women”

reputation of

rights of women to own property

Roman norms concerning

sexual attraction of women for women

and their children

tolerance of husbands' infidelities

traveling in Spain

writing autobiographies

See also
Feminism; Marriages/ marriage contracts: legal status of married women

Worchester, battle of

Wren, Christopher

York, Duke of.
See also
James II

ELIZABETH C. GOLDSMITH is a professor of French at Boston University. She has written books on literature in the age of Louis XIV, focusing on women's writing and letter correspondences. She teaches courses on seventeenth-century theater and the novel, travel writing, and historical fiction.

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Goldsmith, Elizabeth C.

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(e-book) 1. Mancini, Maria, 1639–1715? 2. Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646–1699. 3. Louis XIV, King of France 1638–1715—Relations with women. 4. France—Court and courtiers—Social life and customs. 5. Mistresses—France—Biography 6. Women—Europe—Social life and customs—17th century. I. Title.

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