Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Adult we must know who we

we must know who we are

edited by Stephen Rollnick

ISBN13: 9781586780562 ISBN10: 1586780565 Material Type: paperback

Bearing the Cross

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Adult we must know who weLouis 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 womenhis mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Vallire, Athnas de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon; and an array of courtesansmoved in and