Madame de Maintenon : The Secret Wife of King Louis XIV EPUB
by Buckley Veronica Buckley
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Fran oise d'Aubign , born in a bleak provincial prison, her father a condemned murderer and traitor to the state, rose from the depths of poverty to life at the vortex of power at Versailles. Married at fifteen to a tragically disfigured and scandalously popular poet, in his salon Fran oise encountered all the brilliant characters of the seventeenth century's glitterati. After her husband's death, she led the life of a merry widow in the colourful Marais quarter of Paris, before becoming governess to the King's growing brood of royal b tards.
This is the extraordinary story of one woman's daring journey from beggar-girl, West Indian colonist and salonni re to royal mistress and thence, in secret, to the compromised position of Louis' uncrowned Queen. Through the rags-to-riches tale of the marquise de Maintenon, Veronica Buckley reveals every layer of the vibrant and shocking world that was France in the age of Louis XIV.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:17/10/2014
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- ISBN:9781408860236
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
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- ISBN:9781408860236