Abstract
April 24, 1617, marked the end of the prodigious influence of an Italian couple over the regent of France, Marie de Médicis. By arranging the murder of the Marquis d’Ancre, French Marshal and key figure in the affairs of the kingdom, the Dauphin Louis XIII ensured his grasp over the throne and isolated the Queen Mother thanks to the distribution of the deceased’s riches of among his supporters. However, a question remained: What should be done to widow Léonora Dori, Concini’s legitimate heir? By analyzing how the Marquise is represented in French and English pamphlets, this article rebuilds the ways she was portrayed and the opposing views about her degree of influence in early 17th-century France. By investigating the interface between the History of Print, the History of Women and the History of Emotions, this work reflects on the mobility of texts and the impact of cheap prints on establishing a specific imaginary around the feminine and opinion formation in early modern France.
Keywords
France; Street Literature; Léonora Dori Galigaï; Louis XIII; Emotions
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LES LARMES de la marquise d’Ancre, sur la mort de son mary. Avec les regrets de sa naissance, et detestation de ses crimes et forfaicts. Paris: Estienne Perin, 1617 (BnF).
LES LARMES de la marquise d’Ancre, sur la mort de son mary. Avec les regrets de sa naissance, et detestation de ses crimes et forfaicts. Lyon, jouxte la copie imprimée à Paris: (s. n.), d’après l’édition d’Estienne Perrin, 1617a (BnF).
THE TEARES of the Marshall d’Ancres wife, shed for the death of her Husband. With the Bewailing of her nativity, and detestation of her h>ainous crimes and offences. Translated out of the French Copie. London: printed by Felix Kingston for William Arondell, 1617 (BL).