The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
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Book Details
Author(s)
Veronica Buckley
Publisher
Picador
ISBN / ASIN
B005GNL7PI
ISBN-13
978B005GNL7P0
Marketplace
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
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.
