Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini

Louis -Jules Mancini - Mazarini, duc de Nevers, ( born December 16, 1716 in Paris, † February 25, 1798 ) 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 the center of which also came from Cardinal Mazarin, the Duc de Nivernais Jules Mazarin.

Mancini - Mazarini was already successful as a writer early debut and had his artistic breakthrough with several successful plays. This circumstance he owed his admission in 1742 to the French Academy as successor to the deceased bishop of Clermont, Jean -Baptiste Massillon ( armchair 4). He himself followed in 1796 the writer Gabriel -Marie Legouvé on this place after.

In Paris, married Mancini - Mazarini Hélène Françoise Phelypeaux de Pontchartrain ( 1715-1781 ). The couple had several children together, including Hélène Julie, the later the Comte de Gisors, Louis -Marie Foucquet de Belle -Isle and married Diane Adélaïde, the future wife of the Duke Louis- Hercule de Cossé - Brissac.

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

It is through his last position he was during the years of the reign of terror in disgrace and was imprisoned. He survived this time and died at the age of 82 years on 25 February 1798 in Paris and found his final resting place.

See also House Mazarin Mancini

Works (selection)

As author

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

As a translator

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