Title: Monsieur Montespan
Description: The Marquis de Montespan and his new wife, Athnas, are a true love-match - a rarity amongst the nobility of seventeenth-century France. But love is not enough to maintain their hedonistic lifestyle, and the couple soon face huge debts.
Subjects: Fiction, Nobility, History, Court and courtiers, Courts and courtiers, Fiction, historical, general, France, fiction
Places: France
People: Louis Henry de Pardaillan de Gondrin Montespan marquis de (-1701), Montespan Madame de (1641-1707)
Time periods: 17th century, Louis XIV, 1643-1715