Gulland, Sandra <br/><br/>
Mistress of the sun 
/ Sandra Gulland 
 - New York  : HarperCollins Publishers  , 2008 
 - 384 p. :   24 cm 
 - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
<br/><br/> Located in the Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780002007757 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>de la Valliere, Louise-Francoise La Baume Le Blanc, Duchesse de Vaujours, 1644-1710----Fiction<br/>Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mistresses---France----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>France---Kings and rulers---Paramours<br/>France---History---Louis XIV, 1643-1715----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographical fiction<br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC GUL