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02895aam a2200457Ii 4500 001 8761D1CCBE4811ED81E085594AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230309010129 008 230302s2023 nyuabf b 001 0beng d 010 $a bl2023010536 020 $a 1639363475 020 $a 9781639363476 035 $a (OCoLC)1371521789 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c LNC $e rda $d IHY $d ILC $d IW3 $d SILO 043 $a e-fr--- 050 14 $a DC130.A44 $b M37 2023 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20230301 100 1 $a McShea, Bronwen, $e author. 245 10 $a La Duchesse : $b the life of Marie de Vignerot : Cardinal Richelieu's forgotten heiress who shaped the fate of France / $c Bronwen McShea. 246 30 $a Duchesse 246 30 $a Life of Marie de Vignerot 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2023. 300 $a xiv, 466 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 24 cm 505 0 $a Prologue - Princesse NieÌce -- Pair de France -- Author's afterword. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-449) and index. 520 $a 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 was married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew, 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. As the Cardinal lay dying, he broke with tradition and entrusted her, above his male heirs, with his vast fortune. McShea shows how Marie would go on to shape her country's political, religious, and cultural life. As the unconventional and independent Duchesse d'Aiguillon, her life reverberated across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas-- yet she was all but forgotten in modern times. -- adapted from jacket 600 10 $a Aiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, $c duchesse d', $d 1604-1675. 650 0 $a Nobility $z France $v Biography. 600 10 $a Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, $c duc de, $d 1585-1642 $x Family. 651 0 $a France $x History $y Louis XIV, 1643-1715. 651 0 $a France $x History $y Louis XIII, 1610-1643. 600 10 $a Aiguillon, Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, $c duchesse d', $d 1604-1675 $x Influence. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305022149.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012339.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230502010428.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8761D1CCBE4811ED81E085594AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IW3Initiate Another SILO Locator Search