She and her younger sister Laura were brought to France by her uncle, as were her maternal cousins, the Mancini sisters: Laura, Marie, Olympe, Hortense, and Marie Anne. The seven nieces of Cardinal Mazarin came to be known as the Mazarinettes by the French court. Mazarin managed to secure advantageous marriages for all of them. Her niece was Mary of Modena, future Queen of England.
In 1660 she and her husband began living at an hôtel on the quai Malaquais, which became known as the Hôtel de Conti.[2] They had two sons, Louis Armand (born 1661) and François Louis (born 1664). Her husband died in 1666.
In 1670, Anne Marie exchanged her townhouse on the quai Malaquais and her beautiful country house in Bouchet for the Hôtel Guénégaud on the quai de Nevers. The house on the quai Malaquais became the Hôtel du Plessis-Guénégaud, her new house became the Hôtel de Conti, and the quai de Nevers became the quai de Conti.[3] She died in Paris at her hôtel on the quai Conti in 1672; she was aged roughly 35. She never saw the birth of her first grandchild Marie Anne de Bourbon.
Issue
She had three children, two of whom reached adulthood:
Louis de Bourbon (Hôtel de Conti, 6 September 1658 - Hôtel de Conti, 14 September 1658)
died childless at age 24; title passed to younger brother.
François Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, nicknamed Le Grand Conti (The Great Conti) (Hôtel de Conti (quai Malaquais), 30 April 1664 - Hôtel de Conti (quai Conti), 22 February 1709)
married Marie Thérèse de Bourbon in 1680; the couple were the titular monarchs of Poland in 1697.
had three legitimate children who survived infancy; only one of them, his only son, Louis Armand II, had children.
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