The Infamous Sophie Dawes: New Light on the Queen of Chantilly

by Adrian Searle

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She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much of her childhood was spent in the island's workhouse. Yet Sophie Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to become one of the most talked-about personalities in post-revolutionary France.

It was the ultimate rags to riches story which would see her become the mistress of the fabulously wealthy French aristocrat Louis Henri de Bourbon, destined to be the last Prince of Conde.

Her total subjugation of the ageing prince, her obsessive desire for a position among the highest echelon of French royalist...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781526717498
  • Publish Date 27 January 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd
  • Imprint Pen & Sword History
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English