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  • Love and Louis XIV

  • The Women in the Life of the Sun King
  • Written by: Antonia Fraser
  • Narrated by: Julia Franklin
  • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins

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Love and Louis XIV

Written by: Antonia Fraser
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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Publisher's Summary

Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general, including his mother Anne of Austria, his two sisters-in-law who were Duchesses d'Orléans in succession, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, his wayward illegitimate daughters, and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his grandson.

© Antonia Fraser; (P) Clipper Audio
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: History

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“A sparkling history which captures the giddy quality of the times.” (Sunday Telegraph

“Vividly capturing 17th-century Europe's most extravagant court.” (Daily Express)

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