The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
Book Details
Author(s)
Veronica Buckley
Publisher
Picador
ISBN / ASIN
0312430051
ISBN-13
9780312430054
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,011,261
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, was born in a French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her way to the center of power at Versailles, the most opulent and ambitious court in all Europe.
Sparkling with irresistible wit, fine detail, and novelistic sweep, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form.
