Madame De Maintenon
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781432621322
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography : Women; History : Europe - France; Europe - France; Historical - General; Women; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: ALL Madame de Maintenon's biographers, even the most recent, have devoted long (and very wearisome) chapters to the character and exploits of her grandfather Theodore-Agrippa, seeking to explain her rare qualities by the laws of heredity, especially the rude probite which he claimed as his special attribute.