Réflexions sur les divers stiles et sur la manière d'écrire, ou Dissertation sur les œuvres de Monsieur de Saint-Evremont - Cotolendi, Charles 16..-1710? (Amsterdam Hoogenhuysen, 1700)
Sieur Dumont, otherwise known as Charles Cotolendi (Barbier), was a lawyer at the parliament of Paris and distinguished literary scholar. Hortense (Ortensia) Mancini was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She was the fourth of the five famous Mancini sisters, who, along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes. With the exception of Marguerite de Valois, Hortense and her sister, Marie Mancini, were the first women in France to put their memoirs into print. Both women were partly motivated by the help that producing a body of evidence would bring to the cause of separation from their abusive husbands.
Pages 1-2 of the preface are missing
Front and back matter contain illegible manuscript remarks (ex libris?) in pensil & ink
Originally published in 1698
Avec l'examen du Factum qu'il a fait pour M. la duchesse Mazarin, contre Mr le duc Mazarin son Mary.‎ Suivant la copie de Paris
Keywords: Saint-Evremond -- 1613-1703; Mancini, Hortense de -- 1646-1699; 17th Century (1601-1700); Literature; Crescendo; France