Athenais

Athenais PDF Author: Lisa Hilton
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316030457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign. photos.