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024 7 _a10.1515/9780271086446
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780271086446
035 _a(DE-B1597)583682
035 _a(OCoLC)1253313575
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aHIS058000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAdams, Tracy
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Creation of the French Royal Mistress :
_bFrom Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry /
_cChristine Adams, Tracy Adams.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: What Was It About France? --
_t1.The Beginning of a Tradition: Agnès Sorel --
_t2. A Tradition Takes Hold: Anne de Pisseleu d’Heilly --
_t3. Diane de Poitiers: Epitome of the French Royal Mistress --
_t4. Gabrielle d’Estrées: Never the Twain Shall Meet --
_t5. The Mistresses of the Sun King: La Vallière, Montespan, Maintenon --
_t6. Tearing the Veil: Pompadour and Du Barry --
_tEpilogue: Mistress-Queen and the End of a Tradition: Marie Antoinette --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aKings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. This study explores the emergence and development of the position of French royal mistress through detailed portraits of nine of its most significant incumbents: Agnès Sorel, Anne de Pisseleu d’Heilly, Diane de Poitiers, Gabrielle d’Estrées, Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc, Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Françoise d’Aubigné, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, and Jeanne Bécu.Beginning in the fifteenth century, key structures converged to create a space at court for the royal mistress. The first was an idea of gender already in place: that while women were legally inferior to men, they were men’s equals in competence. Because of their legal subordinacy, queens were considered to be the safest regents for their husbands, and, subsequently, the royal mistress was the surest counterpoint to the royal favorite. Second, the Renaissance was a period during which people began to experience space as theatrical. This shift to a theatrical world opened up new ways of imagining political guile, which came to be positively associated with the royal mistress. Still, the role had to be activated by an intelligent, charismatic woman associated with a king who sought women as advisors. The fascinating particulars of each case are covered in the chapters of this book.Thoroughly researched and compellingly narrated, this important study explains why the tradition of a politically powerful royal mistress materialized at the French court, but nowhere else in Europe. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the French monarchy, women and royalty, and gender studies.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Women .
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653 _aAncien régime.
653 _aCourt society.
653 _aEarly modern French court.
653 _aKings and queens.
653 _aRoyal mistresses.
700 1 _aAdams, Christine
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780271086446
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271086446
856 4 2 _3Cover
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