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Title: The Rivals of Versailles
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Sally Christie
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1501102990
EAN: 9781501102998
ISBN: 9781501102998
Publisher: Atria Books
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Historical Fiction, Romance
Release Date: 30/06/2016
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 135mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 376g
Book Series: Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy
Description: In this captivating follow-up to Sally Christie’s clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles.
    The year is 1745 and King Louis XV’s bed is once again empty. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a beautiful girl from the middle classes. As a child, a fortune teller had told young Jeanne’s destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the King’s arms.
    All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a more suitable mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivals, including a lustful lady-in-waiting, a precocious fourteen-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sisters, she helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them, war rages, discontent grows, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution.
    Told in Christie's celebrated witty and modern style, The Rivals of Versailles will delight and entrance fans as it brings to life the court of Louis XV in all its pride, pestilence, and glory.

Release Year: 2016

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