Fair women at Fontainebleau
By: by Frank Hamel...
Publisher: E. Nash
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Women -- France; France -- Court and courtiers; Fontainebleau (France)
Table of contents: title: Principal authorities ( p. xv-xviii)  Introduction: Visions of fair women.; title: Women of the middle ages.; title: the duchesse d'Etampes queen of fetes.; title: Diane de Poitiers, the hymph of Fontainebleau.  Catherine de Medicia.  Monther of three kings; title: Gabrielle d'Estrees, almost a queen.; title: Marie de Medicis and Henriette d'Entragues, a queen and her rival.; title: Anne of Austria, a queen-mother.; title: Christina of Sweden, the sybil of the North.; title: Marie, Henriette, and Louise, a trio of fair women.; title: Mme, de Montespan and Mme, de Maintenon, passion and piety.; title: The Demoiselles de Nesle and Mme, de Pompadour, four sisters and a siren.; title: Mme du Barry and Marie-Antoinette, the shame and the pride of the palace.; title: Empress Josephine, a repudiated wife.; title: Helena of Mecklenburg, the bride of Fontainebieau.; title: Index.