Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of King Louis XIV
Autor Veronica Buckleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2009
Françoise
d'Aubigné,
born
in
a
bleak
provincial
prison,
her
father
a
condemned
murderer
and
traitor
to
the
state,
rose
from
the
depths
of
poverty
to
life
at
the
vortex
of
power
at
Versailles.
Married
at
fifteen
to
a
tragically
disfigured
and
scandalously
popular
poet,
in
his
salon
Françoise
encountered
all
the
brilliant
characters
of
the
seventeenth
century's
glitterati.
After
her
husband's
death,
she
led
the
life
of
a
merry
widow
in
the
colourful
Marais
quarter
of
Paris,
before
becoming
governess
to
the
King's
growing
brood
of
royalbâtards.
This
is
the
extraordinary
story
of
one
woman's
daring
journey
from
beggar-girl,
West
Indian
colonist
andsalonnièreto
royal
mistress
and
thence,
in
secret,
to
the
compromised
position
of
Louis'
uncrowned
Queen.
Through
the
rags-to-riches
tale
of
the
marquise
de
Maintenon,
Veronica
Buckley
reveals
every
layer
of
the
vibrant
and
shocking
world
that
was
France
in
the
age
of
Louis
XIV.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780747596547
ISBN-10: 0747596549
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0747596549
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
For
fans
of
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Fraser'sMarie
Antoinette,
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Tillyard'sAristocrats,Amanda
Foreman'sGeorgianaand
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Byrne'sPerdita
Notă biografică
Veronica
Buckley
was
born
in
New
Zealand.
Wide-ranging
studies
in
several
countries
led
to
her
work
in
diverse
fields
from
music
to
the
computing
industry.
After
doctoral
research
in
history
at
Oxford,
she
turned
to
full-time
writing.
She
lives
in
Vienna
with
her
husband,
writer
Philipp
Blom.
Recenzii
'Riveting
and
beautifully
written'
'Buckley has written an admirably balanced life with a wealth of biographical detail and great sympathy for her subject'
'Compelling ... Veronica Buckley writes extremely well, and her narrative never fails to grip ... Madame de Maintenon is convincing and ultimately moving, a perceptive appreciation of a remarkable woman'
'A colourful tale'
'Buckley has written an admirably balanced life with a wealth of biographical detail and great sympathy for her subject'
'Compelling ... Veronica Buckley writes extremely well, and her narrative never fails to grip ... Madame de Maintenon is convincing and ultimately moving, a perceptive appreciation of a remarkable woman'
'A colourful tale'
Descriere
The
rags-to-riches
story
of
Françoise
d'Aubigné,
wife
of
the
Sun-King
of
France