Madame De Maintenon The Secret Wife of Louis XIV

Name: Madame De Maintenon
Author: Veronica Buckley

Auteur: Veronica Buckley

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Bloomsbury

Auteur: Veronica Buckley

Engels
Hardcover
9780747580980
05 mei 2008
480 pagina's

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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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Francoise d'Aubigne was born in a bleak provincial fortress in 1635, her father a condemned murderer and traitor. Yet during her lifetime she managed to make her way from desperate poverty, via the bountiful and treacherous Caribbean islands, to a brilliant salon life in Paris and the centre of power at Versailles. Married at fifteen to forty-two-year-old Paul Scarron, tragically disfigured and scandalously popular poet of the burlesque, Francoise encountered in her husband's famous salon all the brilliant, beautiful, comic and tragic characters of the seventeenth-century's glitterati.After his death she led the life of a merry widow among her friends in the Marais quarter of Paris, before being chosen by the King's mistress, Athenais de Montespan, as governess for her growing brood of royal batards. Leaving the pleasures of the Marais behind her, Francoise began a new life at court, first at the genteel palace of Saint-Germain, then at the King's fabulous new folly of Versailles. This is the extraordinary story of Francoise's progress from governess to royal mistress and thence, in secret, to the compromised position of Louis' uncrowned Queen. Through the rags-to-riches tale of the marquise de Maintenon Veronica Buckley reveals every layer of the vibrant and shocking world that was France in the age of Louis XIV.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 mei 2008
Aantal pagina's: 480
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Hoofdauteur: Veronica Buckley
Hoofduitgeverij: Bloomsbury

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Originele titel: Madame De Maintenon

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Product breedte: 16 cm
Product hoogte: 4.3 cm
Product lengte: 24 cm
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Verpakking breedte: 153 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 5 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
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