A review by firerosearien
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser

5.0

While I had trouble getting through Fraser's Marie Antoinette biography, I found this one much more in vein with her Six Wives and Warrior Queens books, a pleasure to read. I am glad I am not a seventeenth-century woman, but if I had to be one, I don't think I'd mind being Mme. Maintenon! (not for me Athenais's fertility or Louise de la Valliere's religiosity...)