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Sun King's secrets, daily life laid bare.(Life)
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King is acclaimed biographer Antonia Fraser's seventh major biography, in which she reveals that most of the happiest moments in the life of Louis XIV were associated with women.
Foremost among them was a pious and beautiful woman - his mother, Queen Anne of Austria.
Louis entered the world with two teeth in his mouth, in 1638 when Anne was 37. He grew up seeing a lot of her. Fraser describes how the devoutness of his Catholic mother made an impression on Louis, and the relationship continued in tenderness and ...
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