THE SECRET WIFE OF LOUIS XIV: FRANCOISE D’AUBIGNE, MADAME DE MAINTENON By Veronica Buckley Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35, 528 pages REVIEWED BY EMILY COLETTE WILKINSON So bespangled with glittering ...
The French are famous for their supposedly relaxed attitudes toward sex, in contrast to our supposedly puritanical ones. And no one is fonder of this cliché than the French themselves, as was apparent ...
In the autumn of 1683, in a candlelit chapel at the Palace of Versailles, a late-night marriage ceremony took place. The groom was none other than the ruler of France, Louis XIV, 45, also known as the ...
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