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

by Lady Antonia Fraser

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Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere, Athenais de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general, including his mother Anne of Austria, his two sisters-in-law who were Duchesses d'Orleans in succession, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, his wayward illegitimate daughters, and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his grandson.
  • ISBN10 0385509847
  • ISBN13 9780385509848
  • Publish Date 20 March 2007 (first published 17 October 2006)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 28 October 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Nan A. Talese
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 388
  • Language English