Madame de Maintenon
The secret wife of Louis XIV
(Sprache: Englisch)
The rags-to-riches story of Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of the Sun-King of France
The rags-to-riches story of Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of the Sun-King of France
The rags-to-riches story of Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of the Sun-King of France
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The rags-to-riches story of Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of the Sun-King of France
The rags-to-riches story of Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of the Sun-King of France
The rags-to-riches story of Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of the Sun-King of France
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Françoise d'Aubigné was born in a bleak provincial fortress in 1635, her father a condemned murderer and traitor. Yet during her lifetime she managed to make her way from desperate poverty, via the bountiful and treacherous Caribbean islands, to a brilliant salon life in Paris and the centre of power at Versailles. Married at fifteen to forty-two-year-old Paul Scarron, tragically disfigured and scandalously popular poet of the burlesque, Françoise encountered in her husband's famous salon all the brilliant, beautiful, comic and tragic characters of the seventeenth-century's glitterati. After his death she led the life of a merry widow among her friends in the Marais quarter of Paris, before being chosen by the King's mistress, Athénaïs de Montespan, as governess for her growing brood of royal btards. Leaving the pleasures of the Marais behind her, Françoise began a new life at court, first at the genteel palace of Saint-Germain, then at the King's fabulous new folly of Versailles. This is the extraordinary story of Françoise's progress from governess 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Veronica Buckley
Buckley, VeronicaVeronica Buckley was born in New Zealand. Wide-ranging studies in several countries led to her work in diverse fields from music to the computing industry. After doctoral research in history at Oxford, she turned to full-time writing. She lives in Vienna with her husband, writer Philipp Blom.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Veronica Buckley
- 2008, 480 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747580987
- ISBN-13: 9780747580980
Sprache:
Englisch
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