Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini

Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini , duc de Nevers , (born December 16, 1716 in Paris , † February 25, 1798 ibid) was a French politician and writer.

Life

Mancini-Mazarini was a son of the Duc de Nevers, Philippe Jules François Mancini (1676–1768) and his wife Marianna Spinola (1687–1739). Philippe Mancini was part of the family dynasty, from whose center also Cardinal Mazarin came, the Duc de Nivernais Jules Mazarin .

Mancini-Mazarini was able to debut successfully as a writer at an early age and had his artistic breakthrough with several successful plays. He owed this fact in 1742 his admission to the Académie française as successor to the deceased Bishop of Clermont, Jean-Baptiste Massillon ( armchair 4 ). He was followed in 1796 by the writer Gabriel-Marie Legouvé in this square. From 1756 Mancini-Mazarini was an external member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini (bust of Jean-Antoine Houdon )

Mancini-Mazarini married Hèlène Françoise Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1715–1781) in Paris. The couple had several children together, including Hélène Julie, who later married the Comte de Gisors, Louis-Marie Foucquet de Belle-Isle and Adélaïde Diane, the future wife of Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé , the heir duke of Brissac .

In 1748 Mancini-Mazarini was sent on a diplomatic mission to the Holy See in Rome and in 1756 with the same task to Berlin to see Frederick the Great . In 1763 he represented the interests of the French court at Georg III. in London and between 1763 and 1787 he served as a minister under Louis XVI.

It was precisely because of his last office that he fell from grace during the years of reign of terror and was imprisoned. He survived this time and died at the age of 82 on February 25, 1798 in Paris, where he also found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

as an author

La Colette fixée. Comédie en 3 actes en vers; avec un divertissement . Paris 1746 (together with Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère and Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon ).
Fables de Mancini-Nivernois . Paris 1796.

as translator

Horace Walpole : Essai sur l'art des jardins modern . Paris 1785.

literature

Paul Mesnard: Histoire de l'académie française depuis sa fondation jusqu'en 1830 . Charpentier, Paris 1857.

Web links

Commons : Louis Jules Mancini, Duke of Nevers - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Mediterranea
^ Genealogy of the Mancini-Mazarini family
^ Members of the previous academies. Louis-Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini Duke of Nivernais. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 16, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mancini-Mazarini, Louis-Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nivernais, Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini duc de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1798
Place of death	Paris

[1] Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Mediterranea

[2] Genealogy of the Mancini-Mazarini family

[3] Members of the previous academies. Louis-Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazarini Duke of Nivernais. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 16, 2015 .