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Love and Louis XIV |
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“I believe that the histories which will be written about this court after we are all gone will be better and more entertaining than any novel, and I am afraid that those who come after us will not be able to believe them and will think they are just fairytales.” Thus wrote Louis XIV’s sister-in-law.
Antonia Fraser does indeed entertain us by bringing to life these very “fairytales,” vividly portraying the vast edifice of Louis XIV’s court between the years 1643 and 1715—the magnificence, artistic splendour, intrigues, elaborate ritual and, in some cases, absurdity and misery.
Brilliantly exploring the rich dynamic that existed between Louis XIV and the many fascinating women who ornamented his personal life, Fraser examines not only Louis’s mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière and Athénaïs de Montespan, as well as the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general: his mother, Anne of Austria; his two sisters-in-law, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, who were Duchesse d’Orléans in succession; his wayward illegitimate daughters; and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his grandson.
Fraser portrays the gallantry of these relationships, from friendship shading to love, the subtle art of courtship, the more frivolous and even dangerous pursuit of flirtation, down to sensual libertinage ending in sex. But if gallantry—or sex—is one theme of this book, then religion is another, and it is in the connection between the two that the fascination of Louis XIV’s relationships with his mistresses properly lies. Great religious figures of the age such as Bossuet spoke out on the subject of royal adultery, and even Louis could not stop them. As for the women’s spiritual life, it was significant that the Penitent Magdalen was the favourite saint of seventeenth-century France. |
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Random House
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Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It is a division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the foremost media companies in the world.
Random House, Inc. assumed its current form with its acquisition by Bertelsmann in 1998, which brought together the imprints of the former Random House, Inc. with those of the former Bantam Doubleday Dell. Random House, Inc.'s publishing groups include, the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the Crown Publishing Group, the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, the Knopf Publishing Group, the Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House Children's Books, the Random House Diversified Publishing Group, the Random House Information Group, the Random House Publishing Group, and Random House Ventures.
Together, these groups and their imprints publish fiction and nonfiction, both original and reprints, by some of the foremost and most popular writers of our time. They appear in a full range of formats - including hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, electronic, and digital, for the widest possible readership from adults to young adults and children.
The reach of Random House, Inc. is global, with subsidiaries and affiliated companies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Through Random House International, the books published by the imprints of Random House, Inc. are sold in virtually every country in the world.
Random House has long been committed to publishing the best literature by writers both in the United States and abroad. In addition to their commercial success, books published by Random House, Inc. have won more major awards than those published by any other company - including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
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Antonia Fraser |
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