The Rivals of Versailles: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1501102990
- ISBN-13
- 9781501102998
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-04-05
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Sally Christie
Description
1745. Marie-Anne, the youngest of the infamous Nesle sisters and King Louis XV's most beloved mistress, is gone, making room for the next Royal Favorite. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a stunningly beautiful girl from the middle classes. Connections, luck, and a little scheming paved her way to Versailles and into the King's arms-- but 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, 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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