Veronica Buckley: 2 books
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV
Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family's...
by Veronica Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden. In 1654, to the astonishment and dismay of her court, Christina Alexandra announced her abdication in favour of her cousin, Charles. Instrumental...