Mademoiselle de Mancini

Also known as: Mademoiselle Mary / Marie de Mancini / Mary / Mary Mancini / Mary de Mancini · Family: Mancini · Role: cardinal's niece · First appears: Chapter 3

Life events

• Mazarino Mazarini exiles his nieces, including Mary Mancini, to Brouage.(Chapter3 · 📍 Brouage)
  • With: Mazarin
  • “He has exiled his nieces to Brouage.”
• Cardinal Mazarin declares his intention to marry Mary and her sisters advantageously.(Chapter8)
  • With: Mazarin
  • “I have a full and fixed intention to marry them, and that as well as I shall be able.”
• Mary and her sisters depart for Brouage, following Mazarin’s orders.(Chapter8 · 📍 Brouage)
  • “Mary, as well as her sisters, has just set off for Brouage.”
• Louis reveals Rome rejected their marriage and he requested delaying his marriage to the infanta.(Chapter13)
  • With: Louis XIV
  • “Well, the queen-mother wrote to the court of Rome, and received as answer, that a marriage between us would have no validity, and would be dissolved by the holy father. At length, finding there was no hope for us, I requested to have my marriage with the infanta at least delayed.”
• Mary de Mancini announces that she is being exiled and will be married off.(Chapter13)
  • “Then I must bid you adieu forever,” said she. “You know that I am being exiled; you know that I am going to be buried alive; you know still more that they want to marry me off, too.”
• Mary de Mancini departs from Louis after he fails to declare his commitment.(Chapter13)
  • With: Louis XIV
  • “Mademoiselle de Mancini, quite indignant, quitted the king’s arm, hastily entered the carriage, crying to the coachman, ‘Go on, go on, and quick!’”
• Louis XIV abandons marriage to Mademoiselle de Mancini and resolves to wed Maria Theresa.(Chapter15)
  • With: Louis XIV Maria Theresa
  • “This, however, would certainly have happened if I had made your niece my wife. I am perfectly aware of this, and will henceforth oppose nothing to the accomplishment of my destiny. I am prepared, then, to wed the infanta, Maria Theresa.”
• D’Artagnan resigned his position after escorting Louis to meet Mademoiselle de Mancini.(Chapter72)
  • With: D’Artagnan Louis XIV
  • “‘That’s true,’ said D’Artagnan. ‘And you know that, do you? Well, then, you must know that the same day I gave in my resignation!’”

Chapter 3

• elder kin: Mazarin “I say that old Mazarino Mazarini is a hypocrite, who burns impatiently to make his niece Queen of France.”

Chapter 8

• elder kin: Mazarin (Mary is identified among Cardinal Mazarin's nieces.) “Monsieur, like a good courtier, was inquiring of monsieur le cardinal after the health of his nieces; he regretted, he said, not having the pleasure of receiving them at the same time with their uncle; they must certainly have grown in stature, beauty and grace, as they had promised to do the last time Monsieur had seen them. ... “Mary, as well as her sisters, has just set off for Brouage.”
• admirer: Louis XIV (The news concerning Mary produces a powerful emotional reaction in Louis XIV.) “‘Mary, as well as her sisters, has just set off for Brouage. I make them follow the opposite bank of the Loire to that along which we have traveled; and if I calculate their progress correctly, according to the orders I have given, they will to-morrow be opposite Blois.’ These words were pronounced with that tact—that measure, that distinctness of tone, of intention, and reach—which made del Signor Giulio Mazarini the first comedian in the world. It resulted that they went straight to the heart of Louis XIV.”

Chapter 13

• courtship with Louis XIV “all these beauties of the day, all these perfumes of the plants, all these aspirations of the earth towards heaven, intoxicated the two lovers, walking side by side, leaning upon each other, eyes fixed upon eyes, hand clasping hand, and who, lingering as by a common desire, did not dare to speak, they had so much to say.”

Chapter 15

• elder kin: Mazarin (Mazarin is identified as the uncle of Mademoiselle de Mancini.) “This, however, would certainly have happened if I had made your niece my wife.”

Chapter 20

• courtship with Louis XIV “It came to me one morning on the banks of the Loire, whilst our beloved king, Louis XIV., was pretending to weep upon the hand of Mademoiselle de Mancini.”

Chapter 72

• courtship with Louis XIV “‘the king had taken you as the confidant of his amours.’ ‘With whom?’ ‘With Mademoiselle de Mancini.’”

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Extracted from the original text of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Made with Rho MD.