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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 18 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy ; bk. 2 |
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Christie, Sally.
Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy. Spoken word ; bk. 2
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Elizabeth Wiley. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764 -- Fiction.
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Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774 -- Fiction.
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France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774 -- Fiction.
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France -- Kings and rulers -- Paramours -- Fiction.
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France -- Court and courtiers -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wiley, Elizabeth, 1962 April 21- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781515924005 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1515924009 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11611635 |
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