Madame de Maintenon: The secret wife of King Louis XIV - Brossura

Buckley, Veronica

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0747596549 ISBN 13: 9780747596547

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009

Riassunto

Francoise d'Aubigne, 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 Francoise 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 batards. This is the extraordinary story of one woman's daring journey from beggar-girl, West Indian colonist and salonniere 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0747596549
• ISBN 13: 9780747596547
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480