Mistress of the sun
Gulland, Sandra
Mistress of the sun / Sandra Gulland - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2008 - 384 p. : 24 cm - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in the Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors.
As she did for Napoleon's wife (The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.), Gulland blends fact and fiction to imagine the life of Louise de la Vallière (1644-1710), mistress to Louis XIV, France's Sun King. Louise loses her father early and spends her childhood in a convent run by her aunt, Sister Angelique. When Louise's mother, Françoise, marries a marquis, she takes Louise home, where, by chance, she meets King Louis. As she secures a position at court about 100 pages in, the plot finally begins to bubble with intrigue: the king has married for political reasons, but, as a young and pious man, he has not kept a mistress before Louise. Their secret love eventually comes to light, but not without exacting a price. A supernatural element threaded throughout adds to Gulland's vivid period imaginings.
9780002007757
de la Valliere, Louise-Francoise La Baume Le Blanc, Duchesse de Vaujours, 1644-1710----Fiction
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715----Fiction
Mistresses---France----Fiction
France---Kings and rulers---Paramours
France---History---Louis XIV, 1643-1715----Fiction
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
FIC GUL
Mistress of the sun / Sandra Gulland - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2008 - 384 p. : 24 cm - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in the Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors.
As she did for Napoleon's wife (The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.), Gulland blends fact and fiction to imagine the life of Louise de la Vallière (1644-1710), mistress to Louis XIV, France's Sun King. Louise loses her father early and spends her childhood in a convent run by her aunt, Sister Angelique. When Louise's mother, Françoise, marries a marquis, she takes Louise home, where, by chance, she meets King Louis. As she secures a position at court about 100 pages in, the plot finally begins to bubble with intrigue: the king has married for political reasons, but, as a young and pious man, he has not kept a mistress before Louise. Their secret love eventually comes to light, but not without exacting a price. A supernatural element threaded throughout adds to Gulland's vivid period imaginings.
9780002007757
de la Valliere, Louise-Francoise La Baume Le Blanc, Duchesse de Vaujours, 1644-1710----Fiction
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715----Fiction
Mistresses---France----Fiction
France---Kings and rulers---Paramours
France---History---Louis XIV, 1643-1715----Fiction
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
FIC GUL
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