this time to Eu where she busied herself in establish-Fouquerolles (The Life of Madame de Fouquerolles), ing a school for the poor. published in 1652 at Saint Fargeau, is the biography of On her second return to Paris, she led the com-one of her ladies-in-waiting. La Relation de l'île plex and highly codified life of a "petite fille de France." imaginaire (The Story of an Imaginary Island), written Her salon was frequented by such luminaries as the in two days in 1658 at Trévous, gives a Utopian plan of Marquis de Sévère, Madame de Lafayette, and the Mar-government. Histoire de la Princesse Paphlagonie quis de la Rochefoucault. A great builder like her royal (1659; The Story of the Princess of Paphlagonie) records cousin, she was also one of the first patrons of Le Vau, her support of Mlle de Vandy in that lady's quarrel with the architect of Versailles. She dabbled in literature, the Comtesse de Fiesque. These, and the Divers Por-writing two rather mediocre novels, La Relation de Me traits (Several Portraits) published in 1659, are addi-imaginaire (The Story of an Imaginary Island) and tionally difficult to evaluate because of their almost Histoire de la Princesse de Paphlagonie (The Story of certain rewriting at the hands of Mlle de Montpensier's Princess Paphlagonie), which initially appeared under various secretaries. The Relation (The Story) and the name of her secretary, Segrais. She also patronized Histoire de la Princesse (The Story of the Princess) the arts. It was in her salon that the first complete pub-were published originally under Segrais's name. lic performance was given of Molière's Tartuffe. Her letters and her memoirs, on the other hand, Although in her youth she had been more inter-are just as certainly her own work but also just as ested in statecraft than in the "gallanterie" of her vari-certainly an odd mixture of fact and fiction. Her most ous marriage proposals, in middle age she fell victim celebrated correspondence, with Madame de to an unfortunate passion. At the age of forty, she fell Motteville, details a fictional Utopian community in love with a Gascon captain in the King's body-where marriage is outlawed. Her reasons for this struc-guard—Antoine Nompar du Caumont, the Compte turing not only reflect events in her own life but also de Lauzun. Lauzun, an adept social climber and a cal-prefigure many feminist arguments. lous adventurer, seems to have returned her affection, Recently her Mémoires, a vast collection number-at least initially, and after much subtle negotiation, ing 2,000 pages, have received renewed attention. In they obtained permission from Louis to wed. The the past her lack of precision and her disregard for marriage was delayed by a few days, however, and in facts have been cited as flaws in the collection, as have that small space of time political pressures brought to failings in grammar, spelling, factual dating, and con-bear on the King compelled him to withdraw his per-struction. However, a new interest in her work, partly mission. Lauzun, his former favorite, was imprisoned fueled by the publication of a more faithful text, has in the Bastille. revealed some intriguing and little-anticipated aspects. Although Anne-Marie worked frantically for his Mlle de Montpensier, despite her lack of a classi-release, it was to take almost ten years to win his cal education, is a vivid observer. She stuffs her pages liberty. Even then, she obtained it only by giving part with minute descriptions of styles, dress, gestures, of her estate to Louis's illegitimate son, the Duc de courtly functions, moonlight, and architecture. Her Maine. It is possible that she married Lauzun shortly spontaneous and consciously uncorrected style, a de-after he was granted a pardon in 1682, but her in-cided contrast to the carefully written and rewritten ability to procure additional favors at court, despite memoirs of Madame de Motteville, has now been her numerous gifts of land and money, angered the stripped of the regularization and polish of former Gascon lover. He turned on her, was cold, indiffer-editors. It can be seen as it once was—a remarkably ent, and cruel, and they soon separated. The remain-effective document, recording the twists and turns of der of her life passed in charitable works, increased Mile's often troubled mind. Her interesting use of di-isolation, and the writing of her memoirs, which she rect as opposed to indirect style and a number of pas-began again in 1672, seventeen years after discard-sages of self-reflection that had previously been cut ing them. She died of uremic poisoning at sixty-six are also exciting discoveries in the work of a feminine years of age on April 15, 1693 in her apartments in seventeenth-century memorialist. Paris. A grotesquely and undeservedly comic touch Mlle de Montpensier's Mémoires, if read in this marred her state funeral when a jar containing her recovered form, are the most personal and the most embalmed entrails exploded, bringing the ceremo-telling of their century. Their worth lies not so much nies to a temporary halt. in their illumination of great historical events as in It is difficult to categorize the works of Mlle de their explorations of the pressures surrounding Anne-Montpensier. Even her novels are a strange melange of Marie. Written at four different intervals in her life, social history and fabulous story. La Vie de Madame they are uniformly composed in places and times of

DOI link for this time to Eu where she busied herself in establish-Fouquerolles (The Life of Madame de Fouquerolles), ing a school for the poor. published in 1652 at Saint Fargeau, is the biography of On her second return to Paris, she led the com-one of her ladies-in-waiting. La Relation de l'île plex and highly codified life of a "petite fille de France." imaginaire (The Story of an Imaginary Island), written Her salon was frequented by such luminaries as the in two days in 1658 at Trévous, gives a Utopian plan of Marquis de Sévère, Madame de Lafayette, and the Mar-government. Histoire de la Princesse Paphlagonie quis de la Rochefoucault. A great builder like her royal (1659; The Story of the Princess of Paphlagonie) records cousin, she was also one of the first patrons of Le Vau, her support of Mlle de Vandy in that lady's quarrel with the architect of Versailles. She dabbled in literature, the Comtesse de Fiesque. These, and the Divers Por-writing two rather mediocre novels, La Relation de Me traits (Several Portraits) published in 1659, are addi-imaginaire (The Story of an Imaginary Island) and tionally difficult to evaluate because of their almost Histoire de la Princesse de Paphlagonie (The Story of certain rewriting at the hands of Mlle de Montpensier's Princess Paphlagonie), which initially appeared under various secretaries. The Relation (The Story) and the name of her secretary, Segrais. She also patronized Histoire de la Princesse (The Story of the Princess) the arts. It was in her salon that the first complete pub-were published originally under Segrais's name. lic performance was given of Molière's Tartuffe. Her letters and her memoirs, on the other hand, Although in her youth she had been more inter-are just as certainly her own work but also just as ested in statecraft than in the "gallanterie" of her vari-certainly an odd mixture of fact and fiction. Her most ous marriage proposals, in middle age she fell victim celebrated correspondence, with Madame de to an unfortunate passion. At the age of forty, she fell Motteville, details a fictional Utopian community in love with a Gascon captain in the King's body-where marriage is outlawed. Her reasons for this struc-guard—Antoine Nompar du Caumont, the Compte turing not only reflect events in her own life but also de Lauzun. Lauzun, an adept social climber and a cal-prefigure many feminist arguments. lous adventurer, seems to have returned her affection, Recently her Mémoires, a vast collection number-at least initially, and after much subtle negotiation, ing 2,000 pages, have received renewed attention. In they obtained permission from Louis to wed. The the past her lack of precision and her disregard for marriage was delayed by a few days, however, and in facts have been cited as flaws in the collection, as have that small space of time political pressures brought to failings in grammar, spelling, factual dating, and con-bear on the King compelled him to withdraw his per-struction. However, a new interest in her work, partly mission. Lauzun, his former favorite, was imprisoned fueled by the publication of a more faithful text, has in the Bastille. revealed some intriguing and little-anticipated aspects. Although Anne-Marie worked frantically for his Mlle de Montpensier, despite her lack of a classi-release, it was to take almost ten years to win his cal education, is a vivid observer. She stuffs her pages liberty. Even then, she obtained it only by giving part with minute descriptions of styles, dress, gestures, of her estate to Louis's illegitimate son, the Duc de courtly functions, moonlight, and architecture. Her Maine. It is possible that she married Lauzun shortly spontaneous and consciously uncorrected style, a de-after he was granted a pardon in 1682, but her in-cided contrast to the carefully written and rewritten ability to procure additional favors at court, despite memoirs of Madame de Motteville, has now been her numerous gifts of land and money, angered the stripped of the regularization and polish of former Gascon lover. He turned on her, was cold, indiffer-editors. It can be seen as it once was—a remarkably ent, and cruel, and they soon separated. The remain-effective document, recording the twists and turns of der of her life passed in charitable works, increased Mile's often troubled mind. Her interesting use of di-isolation, and the writing of her memoirs, which she rect as opposed to indirect style and a number of pas-began again in 1672, seventeen years after discard-sages of self-reflection that had previously been cut ing them. She died of uremic poisoning at sixty-six are also exciting discoveries in the work of a feminine years of age on April 15, 1693 in her apartments in seventeenth-century memorialist. Paris. A grotesquely and undeservedly comic touch Mlle de Montpensier's Mémoires, if read in this marred her state funeral when a jar containing her recovered form, are the most personal and the most embalmed entrails exploded, bringing the ceremo-telling of their century. Their worth lies not so much nies to a temporary halt. in their illumination of great historical events as in It is difficult to categorize the works of Mlle de their explorations of the pressures surrounding Anne-Montpensier. Even her novels are a strange melange of Marie. Written at four different intervals in her life, social history and fabulous story. La Vie de Madame they are uniformly composed in places and times of

this time to Eu where she busied herself in establish-Fouquerolles (The Life of Madame de Fouquerolles), ing a school for the poor. published in 1652 at Saint Fargeau, is the biography of On her second return to Paris, she led the com-one of her ladies-in-waiting. La Relation de l'île plex and highly codified life of a "petite fille de France." imaginaire (The Story of an Imaginary Island), written Her salon was frequented by such luminaries as the in two days in 1658 at Trévous, gives a Utopian plan of Marquis de Sévère, Madame de Lafayette, and the Mar-government. Histoire de la Princesse Paphlagonie quis de la Rochefoucault. A great builder like her royal (1659; The Story of the Princess of Paphlagonie) records cousin, she was also one of the first patrons of Le Vau, her support of Mlle de Vandy in that lady's quarrel with the architect of Versailles. She dabbled in literature, the Comtesse de Fiesque. These, and the Divers Por-writing two rather mediocre novels, La Relation de Me traits (Several Portraits) published in 1659, are addi-imaginaire (The Story of an Imaginary Island) and tionally difficult to evaluate because of their almost Histoire de la Princesse de Paphlagonie (The Story of certain rewriting at the hands of Mlle de Montpensier's Princess Paphlagonie), which initially appeared under various secretaries. The Relation (The Story) and the name of her secretary, Segrais. She also patronized Histoire de la Princesse (The Story of the Princess) the arts. It was in her salon that the first complete pub-were published originally under Segrais's name. lic performance was given of Molière's Tartuffe. Her letters and her memoirs, on the other hand, Although in her youth she had been more inter-are just as certainly her own work but also just as ested in statecraft than in the "gallanterie" of her vari-certainly an odd mixture of fact and fiction. Her most ous marriage proposals, in middle age she fell victim celebrated correspondence, with Madame de to an unfortunate passion. At the age of forty, she fell Motteville, details a fictional Utopian community in love with a Gascon captain in the King's body-where marriage is outlawed. Her reasons for this struc-guard—Antoine Nompar du Caumont, the Compte turing not only reflect events in her own life but also de Lauzun. Lauzun, an adept social climber and a cal-prefigure many feminist arguments. lous adventurer, seems to have returned her affection, Recently her Mémoires, a vast collection number-at least initially, and after much subtle negotiation, ing 2,000 pages, have received renewed attention. In they obtained permission from Louis to wed. The the past her lack of precision and her disregard for marriage was delayed by a few days, however, and in facts have been cited as flaws in the collection, as have that small space of time political pressures brought to failings in grammar, spelling, factual dating, and con-bear on the King compelled him to withdraw his per-struction. However, a new interest in her work, partly mission. Lauzun, his former favorite, was imprisoned fueled by the publication of a more faithful text, has in the Bastille. revealed some intriguing and little-anticipated aspects. Although Anne-Marie worked frantically for his Mlle de Montpensier, despite her lack of a classi-release, it was to take almost ten years to win his cal education, is a vivid observer. She stuffs her pages liberty. Even then, she obtained it only by giving part with minute descriptions of styles, dress, gestures, of her estate to Louis's illegitimate son, the Duc de courtly functions, moonlight, and architecture. Her Maine. It is possible that she married Lauzun shortly spontaneous and consciously uncorrected style, a de-after he was granted a pardon in 1682, but her in-cided contrast to the carefully written and rewritten ability to procure additional favors at court, despite memoirs of Madame de Motteville, has now been her numerous gifts of land and money, angered the stripped of the regularization and polish of former Gascon lover. He turned on her, was cold, indiffer-editors. It can be seen as it once was—a remarkably ent, and cruel, and they soon separated. The remain-effective document, recording the twists and turns of der of her life passed in charitable works, increased Mile's often troubled mind. Her interesting use of di-isolation, and the writing of her memoirs, which she rect as opposed to indirect style and a number of pas-began again in 1672, seventeen years after discard-sages of self-reflection that had previously been cut ing them. She died of uremic poisoning at sixty-six are also exciting discoveries in the work of a feminine years of age on April 15, 1693 in her apartments in seventeenth-century memorialist. Paris. A grotesquely and undeservedly comic touch Mlle de Montpensier's Mémoires, if read in this marred her state funeral when a jar containing her recovered form, are the most personal and the most embalmed entrails exploded, bringing the ceremo-telling of their century. Their worth lies not so much nies to a temporary halt. in their illumination of great historical events as in It is difficult to categorize the works of Mlle de their explorations of the pressures surrounding Anne-Montpensier. Even her novels are a strange melange of Marie. Written at four different intervals in her life, social history and fabulous story. La Vie de Madame they are uniformly composed in places and times of