A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Nemours, (Mary d'Orleans Longueville, Duchess of)
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NEMOURS (MARY D'ORLEANS LONGUEVILLE, DUCHESS OF), Sovereign Countess of Neufchatel and Valengin; born 1624; died 1707.
She was married very young to the duke de mours, and by this alliance two of the first families in France were united. In the troubles of the minority of Lewis XIV, her father, M. de Longueville, was of the party of the princes of the blood; but she exerted herself only to conciliate the spirits of each, making a particular study of the divers interests of the king's party and that of the Frondeurs; from which she afterwards detached her father. Her memoirs of this unhappy time are written with great impartiality, and shew her discernment, wisdom, and piety. They may be found in several editions of Joly's Memoirs, and separately, 12mo.
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