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Article: La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France 1627-1693.(Book Review)

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by Vincent J. Pitts. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv, 367 pp. $47.00 U.S. (cloth).

This biography of Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orleans, granddaughter of King Henri IV and cousin to King Louis XIV, offers a vivid picture of the French court during the ancien regime. Pitts features the major events in the life of "La Grande Mademoiselle" (as she was known), including her participation in the Fronde in 1652--she saved the rebel army by turning the cannon of the Bastille against royal troops, the numerous failed attempts of her male guardians to negotiate marriage contracts on her behalf, and her own efforts to wed the comte de Lauzun, a ... 







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