ScriptaManent 2026-06-09T07:50:30+02:00 1 45899 Bib Chapitre de livre https://heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/?recID=45899&db=ScriptaManent 2024-11-04 09:51:07 2024-11-04 09:56:50 public The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress. Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Etampes 45889 <p>"Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Étampes, was<em> maîtresse en titre</em> of François I, one of the f irst really high prof ile f igures in such a position. This chapter provides a number of perspectives, combining profound suspicion of non-royal women in political power and assumptions about women, marriage, and political power. Artists and writers provide one perspective. Cellini was notoriously sour about her; poets celebrated her favors; architects found in her a patron. Another emerges from her unusual ‘afterlife’, since she lived nearly half her lifetime after the death of François I (until her death in 1580). In that period, she recovered from personal and political disaster in 1547 and became an energetic businesswoman, promoter of her family’s interests, and a notable Protestant."</p> https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048533404-013 309 334 45900 45908 1