Madame De Maintenon
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781417927012
Subjects: Biography: general; Europe - France; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; France; Historical - General; Women
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.