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Athenais

Name: Athenais
ISBN: 9780316030458

The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France

Lisa Hilton, Duncan Falconer

Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · October 15, 2007

Reading lane: Royal Lives

Royal Lives French History

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Why This Clicks

Court Life

A polished, period-minded read about power, intimacy, and the theater of court life.

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courtly intrigue, social climb, and the hard edge of favor
a historical lens with novelistic sweep

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familiar historical contours
an emphasis on atmosphere over tidy answers

Book Details

Authors: Lisa Hilton, Duncan Falconer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: October 15, 2007
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Royal Lives · French History
Reading lane: Royal Lives

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Royal Lives
French History

About This Book

As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign. photos.