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1 online resource (1 audio file). |
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digital rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Series |
The mistresses of Versailles trilogy ; 2 |
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Christie, Sally, 1971-
Mistresses of Versailles trilogy ; 2.
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| 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. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by Elizabeth Wiley. |
| Summary |
Presents the story of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a middle-class French girl who rose to become the mistress of King Louis XV and who as the powerful Marquise de Pompadour held influence over the king and Versailles for almost twenty years. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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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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Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774. |
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Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764. |
| Chronological Term |
1715-1774 |
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Courts and courtiers. |
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Kings and rulers -- Paramours. |
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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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France. |
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Fiction.
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History.
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Electronic audio books. |
| Added Author |
Wiley, Elizabeth, 1962 April 21- narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Christie, Sally, 1971- Rivals of Versailles : a novel [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor Audio, [2016] 9781515904007 (NjBwBT)bl2016023331 (OCoLC) |
| ISBN |
9781515924005 : $54.95 |
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1515924009 : $54.95 |
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