num_pages: 388
description: As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign. photos.
language: English
title: Athénaïs
titlecomplete: Athénaïs
characters: Athenais de Montespan, Louis XIV of France
genres: France, Historical, History, Own, European History, Biography Memoir, Biography, 17th Century, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 882
publisher: Back Bay Books