Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 7

Name: Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 7
Author: Madame de Montespan

by Madame de Montespan

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-12-02

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Public domain in the USA.

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France -- Court and courtiers Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707

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Madame de Montespan

1641–1707

A brilliant and controversial figure at the court of Louis XIV, she rose from lady-in-waiting to become the king’s most famous mistress and one of the most powerful women at Versailles. Her life mixed glamour, politics, and scandal in a way that still feels dramatic centuries later.

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