Love and Louis XIV The Women in the Life of the Sun King

Name: Love and Louis XIV The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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ISBN: 9781400033744

ISBN-10: 1400033748

ISBN-13: 9781400033744

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Authors: Antonia Fraser

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Louis XIV, the highly-feted "Sun King," was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women -- his wife Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Valliere, Athenais de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon; and an array of courtesans -- moved in and out of the court. The highly visible presence of these women raises many questions about their position in both Louis XIV's life and in France at large. With careful research and vivid, engaging prose, Fraser makes the multifaceted…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.94" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Antonia Fraser is the author of numerous internationally bestselling biographies, including "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and "Cromwell: Our Chief of Men".



List of Illustrations


Author's Note


Chronological Political Summary


Genealogy


Principal Characters


Spring



Gift from Heaven



Vigour of the Princess



Peace and the Infanta



Our Court's Laughing Face



Sweet Violence


Summer



The Rise of Another



Marriages Like Death



A Singular Position



Throwing Off a Passion



Madame Now


Autumn



The King's Need



Grandeurs of the World



Becoming a Child Again


Winter



Gaiety Begins to Go



We Must Submit



Going on a Journey



Never Forget


Notes


Sources


Index