Love and Louis XIV - The Women in the Life of the Sun King - Antonia Fraser Audiobook
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Unabridged
Listening Length: 13 hours and 20 minutes
The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.
The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV, ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in 17th-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis’ accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women.
The king’s mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for 22 years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A devout Catholic, she instilled in her son a strong sense of piety and fought successfully for his right to absolute power. In 1660, Louis married his first cousin, Marie-Thérèse, in a political arrangement. While unfailingly kind to the official Queen of Versailles, Louis sought others to satisfy his romantic and sexual desires. After a flirtation with his sister-in-law, his first important mistress was Louise de La Vallière, who bore him several children before being replaced by the tempestuous and brilliant Athénaïs, the Marquise de Montespan. Later, when Athénaïs’ reputation was tarnished, the king continued to support her publicly as Athénaïs left court for a life of repentance. Meanwhile, her children’s governess, the intelligent and seemingly puritanical Françoise de Maintenon, had already won the King’s affections. In a relationship in complete contrast to his physical obsession with Athénaïs, Louis XIV lived happily with Madame de Maintenon for the rest of his life, very probably marrying her in secret. In the end, when his grandson’s child bride, the enchanting Adelaide of Savoy, came to Versailles, she lightened the King’s last years, until tragedy struck.
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This post has 4 comments
December 9th, 2015
Careful, this b adds a virus called pixaca to his shares.
December 9th, 2015
@Name: odd - ssitimefill uploads quality books all the time and I’ve never seen a complaint about him or his uploads.
Mind you, there are other uploaders on other sites that upload a folder called ‘Bonus’ that contains some supposed anti adware app for desktop and smartphone. I’ve deleted a handful of these already.
One thing for you to keep in mind, when you torrent, you’re running the risk of having someone else in the swarm upload viruses and other malware. A few weeks ago I spent hours trying to delete a rootkit exe. If it wasn’t for the fact that I have enabled (through the Control Panel) to view all files and folders (nothing ‘hidden’) I wouldn’t have spotted it.
I caught it before it was installed by whoever who had dropped it in my torrent folder. PMO.
December 10th, 2015
@ssitimefill: wondering why you’re adding .wax files. They’re Windows Media shortcuts and aren’t needed to play the files of the books you’ve uploaded.
December 16th, 2015
very rare getting Louis XIV books.thanks allot
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