num_pages: 432
description: Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general, including his mother Anne of Austria, his two sisters-in-law who were Duchesses d'Orléans in succession, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, his wayward illegitimate daughters, and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his grandson.
language: English
title: Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
titlecomplete: Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
characters: Louis XIV of France
genres: Audiobook, Nonfiction, Historical, Biography Memoir, Biography, 17th Century, History, European History, France, 18th Century
ratings_count: 7801
places: Versailles
publisher: Phoenix