Author: George Payne Rainsford JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Marchioness de Maintenon
Author: George Payne Rainsford JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Memoirs of Celebrated Women: Marchioness de Maintenon
Author: George Payne Rainsford JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Secret Wife of Louis XIV
Author: Veronica BuckleyPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374158304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden’s seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family’s fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. 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. At fifteen, she was married off to the forty-two-year-old satirical poet Paul Scarron, a former roué now grievously deformed by rheumatism—“a sort of human Z,” as he described himself. Despite his ailments, Scarron presided over the liveliest and most scandalous literary salon in Paris, and Françoise quickly became its most prized ornament. After Scarron’s death, she enjoyed a merry widowhood in the fashionable Marais district, in the company of the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos and the King’s splendid mistress, Athénaïs de Montespan, who made the young widow governess to her brood of illegitimate children. The appointment transformed Françoise’s life, but was fatal to the temperamental Athénaïs herself, with the King soon turning his attentions to the graceful governess. Françoise was raised to the nobility as Madame de Maintenon—and, unofficially, “Madame de Maintenant,” the lady of the moment. The acclaimed biographer Veronica Buckley traces the extraordinary story of Françoise’s progress from pauper child to salonnière to the compromised position of Louis’s secret wife and uncrowned Queen. An absolute ruler, Louis turned away his many other mistresses to live with Françoise only, trusting her as his closest confidante and remaining in love with her for forty years. Sparkling with the irresistible wit of contemporary chroniclers such as Madame de Sévigné, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form. In vibrant colors, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV paints a portrait of Europe in an age of violent change, and the Sun King’s France in the process of becoming its modern self.
Memoire for the History of Madame de Maintenon and of the Last Age ...
Author: Laurent Angliviel de La BeaumellePublisher:
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Category : Favorites, Royal
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The King's Way
Author: Françoise ChandernagorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Secret Correspondence of Madame de Maintenon, with the Princess Des Ursins; from the Original Manuscripts in the Possession of the Duke de Choiseul. Translated from the French. [With Portraits.]
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Author: Françoise d' AUBIGNÉ (Marchioness de Maintenon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Queen of Versailles
Author: Mark BryantPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228004322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon. A study in queenship, it reveals how the dynamics of power and gender operated within the realms of early modern high politics, church-state affairs and international relations while providing unique insights into the Sun King and his court.
The Letter of Madam de Maintenon; and Other Eminent Persons in the Age of Lewis XIV. To which are Added, Some Characters. Translated from the French. [From the Edition of L. Angliviel de la Beaumelle.]
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Author: Françoise d' AUBIGNÉ (Marchioness de Maintenon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan
Author: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart marquise de MontespanPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Author: Pamela Hill