The Secret Wife of Louis XIV Françoise D'aubigne, Madame De Maintenon
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Veronica Buckley
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- 9780374158309
- 01 september 2009
- 498 pagina's
Veronica Buckley
Veronica Buckley was born in New Zealand. Alongside her first studies in languages and philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, she trained as a classical ‘cellist, and worked for some time as an orchestral musician before taking up history scholarships at London and Oxford. While in England, Veronica wrote a series of children’s stories for performance with orchestra, before moving to Paris to devote herself to full-time writing. Veronica’s historical biographies, Christina, Queen of Sweden and Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV, are complemented by art and travel writing as well as film, stage, and book translations. She is also a regular arts reviewer for Vienna’s Metropole magazine. Her latest book, New Insights, is an original encounter with the great art collections of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. Like Twilight of the Romanovs, an evocative photographic history of the late Russian Empire, it was produced together with Veronica’s husband, historian and writer Philipp Blom. Veronica’s work has been translated into German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Swedish and Dutch. She lives in Vienna.
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Françoise dAubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the wardens seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the familys fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her way to the center of power at Versailles, the most opulent and ambitious court in all Europe.
At fifteen, she was married off to the forty-two-year-old satirical poet Paul Scarron, a former roué now grievously deformed by rheumatisma sort of human Z, as he described himself. Despite his ailments, Scarron presided over the liveliest and most scandalous literary salon in Paris, and Françoise quickly became its most prized ornament.
After Scarrons death, she enjoyed a merry widowhood in the fashionable Marais district, in the company of the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos and the Kings splendid mistress, Athénaïs de Montespan, who made the young widow governess to her brood of illegitimate children. The appointment transformed Françoises life, but was fatal to the temperamental Athénaïs herself, with the King soon turning his attentions to the graceful governess. Françoise was raised to the nobility as Madame de Maintenonand, unofficially, Madame de Maintenant, the lady of the moment.The acclaimed biographer Veronica Buckley traces the extraordinary story of Françoises progress from pauper child to salonnière to the compromised position of Louiss secret wife and uncrowned Queen. An absolute ruler, Louis turned away his many other mistresses to live with Françoise only, trusting her as his closest confidante and remaining in love with her for forty years.
Sparkling with the irresistible wit of contemporary chroniclers such as Madame de Sévigné, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form. In vibrant colors, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV paints a portrait of Europe in an age of violent change, and the Sun Kings France in the process of becoming its modern self.
At fifteen, she was married off to the forty-two-year-old satirical poet Paul Scarron, a former roué now grievously deformed by rheumatisma sort of human Z, as he described himself. Despite his ailments, Scarron presided over the liveliest and most scandalous literary salon in Paris, and Françoise quickly became its most prized ornament.
After Scarrons death, she enjoyed a merry widowhood in the fashionable Marais district, in the company of the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos and the Kings splendid mistress, Athénaïs de Montespan, who made the young widow governess to her brood of illegitimate children. The appointment transformed Françoises life, but was fatal to the temperamental Athénaïs herself, with the King soon turning his attentions to the graceful governess. Françoise was raised to the nobility as Madame de Maintenonand, unofficially, Madame de Maintenant, the lady of the moment.The acclaimed biographer Veronica Buckley traces the extraordinary story of Françoises progress from pauper child to salonnière to the compromised position of Louiss secret wife and uncrowned Queen. An absolute ruler, Louis turned away his many other mistresses to live with Françoise only, trusting her as his closest confidante and remaining in love with her for forty years.
Sparkling with the irresistible wit of contemporary chroniclers such as Madame de Sévigné, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form. In vibrant colors, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV paints a portrait of Europe in an age of violent change, and the Sun Kings France in the process of becoming its modern self.
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BUCKLEY, VERONICA. The Secret Wife of Louis XIV. Francoise D'aubigne, Madame De Maintenon. New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 2009 (200), First American edition, in nieuwstaat, hardcover met stofomslag, 498 pagina's. Foto illustraties.
BUCKLEY, VERONICA. The Secret Wife of Louis XIV. Francoise D'aubigne, Madame De Maintenon. New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 2009 (200), First American edition, in nieuwstaat, hardcover met stofomslag, 498 pagina's. Foto illustraties.
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