The Death of Hortense Mansini

Hortense remained in england through the brief reign of james into the rule of will and mary. They provided for her until hortons died in 16 99 at age 53. Some euphemistically say that she drank herself to death, but more realistic scholars understand that it was most likely suicide. Her jealous husband armand would be able to get his claws into her. He refused to pay, let alone recognize, those debts. And so legally, he and hortense were in a stale mate. Eventually, she was buried with her uncle, as she had requested. When the french revolution came, her bones and cardinal mazarin's bones would be thrown into the river