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Although the court of Turin’s role in the new balance of power in Europe during the War of the Spanish Succession is well known, far less is known about the strategic function of its collateral courts, such as the court of the princes of Savoy-Carignano. Based on the correspondence of the Savoy ambassador to Madrid, Costanzo Operti (1690–95), this article focuses on these courts to demonstrate the formal and informal diplomatic interplay among male and female aristocrats from 1640 to the end of the seventeenth century. One such noblewoman, Olimpia Mancini of Carignano-Soissons, was an Italian who grew up in the French court and maintained a close relationship with Louis XIV. As the wife of a prince of the Savoy-Carignano branch, she held important positions in Turin, Paris, and Madrid. Mother to the famous prince and military warrior Eugene of Savoy, after she lost her powerful status in France, she sought to find a place in the Madrid court as lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie Louise de Orléans. Her mother-in-law, Marie de Bourbon-Soissons, played an outstanding role in maintaining the honour and prestige of the court of Carignano.
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This article aims to examine the theme of war and how it is used in Préchac's L'héroïne mousquetaire. Its main focus is the particularities of war's representation in galant short fiction, its devices, uses and functions, with a view to identifying a possible “galant scenography of war narratives.” The underlying hypothesis is that Préchac tries incessantly to renew the genre of the short story. To this end, one of his writing strategies consists of taking factual elements from war history, including descriptions of military campaigns, while carefully adapting them to the aesthetics of the short story. By opting for a galant rewriting of the Franco-Dutch War, the novelist sought to obtain the assent of his readers, to satisfy their taste while offering a certain novelty, but also, to enter into the king's good graces.
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