Love and Louis XIV.(Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King)(Book review)

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Love and Louis XIV

The Women in the Life of the Sun King

By Antonia Fraser

A monarch's varied tastes in mistresses and wives.

Louis XIV (1638-1715), the charismatic Sun King of France, was raised by his mother and regent Anne of Austria to appreciate women and enjoy their company. Wedded to a meek and colorless heiress, Louis sought intellectual and physical solace in the arms of a variety of mistresses: a shy 17-year-old virgin, a worldly and adulterous noblewoman, and a pious governess who raised his bastard offspring and reportedly attempted to ...

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