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Women of Versailles: The Court of Louis XIV
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but real." In this witty and scholarly book, Baron Arthur-Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand explores the solar system of the Sun King with its planets, the women of the court, now orbiting in warm proximity to the monarch, now hurtling away under his glacial disfavor. Here are his neglected queen, Maria Theresa, his imper…
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- Ch. 1: The Château of Versailles
- Ch. 2: Louis XIV, and his Court of 1682
- Ch. 3: Queen Marie Thérèse
- Ch. 4: Madame de Montespan in 1682, Pt. 1
- Ch. 4: Madame de Montespan in 1682, Pt. 2
- Ch. 5: Madame de Maintenon in 1682, Pt. 1
- Ch. 5: Madame de Maintenon in 1682, Pt. 2
- Ch. 6: The Bavarian Dauphiness
- Ch. 7: The Marriage of Madame de Maintenon
- Ch. 8: Madame de Maintenon's Apartment, Pt. 1
- Ch. 8: Madame de Maintenon's Apartment, Pt. 2
- Ch. 9: The Marquise de Caylus
- Ch. 10: Madame de Maintenon and the Gentlewomen of Saint-Cyr
- Ch. 11: The Duchess of Orléans, Pt. 1
- Ch. 11: The Duchess of Orléans, Pt. 2
- Ch. 12: Madame de Maintenon as a Political Woman, Pt. 1
- Ch. 12: Madame de Maintenon as a Political Woman, Pt. 2
- Ch. 13: Madame de Maintenon's Letters
- Ch. 14: The Old Age of Madame de Montespan
- Ch. 15: The Daughters of Louis XIV
- Ch. 16: The Duchess of Burgundy, Pt. 1
- Ch. 16: The Duchess of Burgundy, Pt. 2
- Conclusion: The Tombs
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