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Mistress of the sun / Sandra Gulland

By:

Gulland, Sandra

Material type: Text

TextSeries: San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--AuthorPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2008Description: 384 p. : 24 cmISBN:

9780002007757

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DDC classification:

FIC GUL

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC GUL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		022568

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.

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