The Inevitability of a High Ranking Marriage

Louis the fourteenth was quickly married off to a cousin, maria theresa of spain. And mazarin equally quickly arranged a marriage between marie and an important italian nobleman who apparently was shock to find that his bride was still a virgin. Finally, it was hortense's turn for marriage for her uncle, mazarin, a man these sisters would come to loathe for his coldness and disciplinarian manner. To pick one of the many glittering offers on the table for the prettiest of the mazarinettes. One of the offers from the exiled charles the second, the son of the executed english king, charles the first.