Versailles


Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
The Sisters of Versailles (The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy, #1)
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV
To Dance with Kings
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer
Athénaïs
The School of Mirrors
Abundance by Sena Jeter NaslundThe Road to Compiegne by Jean PlaidyLove and Louis XIV by Antonia FraserMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserThe Kings' Mistresses by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Versailles Splendour
37 books — 6 voters

Madeline by Ludwig BemelmansLes Misérables by Victor HugoAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
All Things French
455 books — 47 voters
Goddess by Kelly GardinerJulie, Chevalier de Maupin by Anne-France DauthevilleMademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile GautierAmande by Henri EvansLa petite Maupin by Henri Evans
Novels about Julie d'Aubigny
6 books — 3 voters

The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyreThe Ivory Mischief by Arthur MeekerTo Dance with Kings by Rosalind LakerThe Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle RileyThe Queen's Lover by Francine du Plessix Gray
Louis XIV/Versailles in Fiction
10 books — 7 voters

Marta Savarino
...Quando Isabelle alzò lo sguardo ebbe l’impressione che il cuore le si fermasse. Stava risalendo insieme a Jeanne la scalinata che dall’Orangerie riportava al castello dopo avere verificato che per loro quella poteva essere la via di fuga perfetta la sera dello spettacolo. Era emozionata e non vedeva l’ora di fare ritorno alla locanda per potere parlare liberamente dei dettagli del piano che aveva in mente con l’amica, quando all’improvviso si era trovata a guardare un uomo il cui sguardo avre ...more
Marta Savarino, La Vendetta di Isabelle

Bertrand Russell
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages fall, it is due to the capitalist. Why the capitalist is ineffective when wages rise, and the profiteer when prices fall, the man in the street does not inquire. Nor does he notice that wages and prices rise and fall together. If he is a capitalist, he wants wages to fall and prices to rise; if he is a wage earner, he wants the opposite. When a currency expert tries ...more
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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