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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Antonia FraserPublish date:2007-11-06Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400033744ISBN-10:1400033748UPC:9781400033744Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Royalty, HistoricalSize:7.96 x 5.28 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCTZRHK3S4

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 mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Valli re, Ath na s 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 life of one of the most famous European monarchs accessible and vibrantly current.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400033744ISBN-10:1400033748UPC:9781400033744Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Royalty, HistoricalSize:7.96 x 5.28 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCTZRHK3S4

Antonia Fraser is the author of many internationally bestselling historical works, including Love and Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola, The Wives of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, and Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832. She is also the author of Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter. She has received the Wolfson Prize for History, the 2000 Norton Medlicott Medal of Britain's Historical Association, and the Franco-British Society's Enid McLeod Literary Prize. She was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to Literature in 2011.


Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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