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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 666 ratings — published 2008
The Sisters of Versailles (The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.73 — 3,165 ratings — published 2015
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 38,813 ratings — published 2001
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 8,100 ratings — published 2006
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,048 ratings — published 1932
Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
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avg rating 3.88 — 250 ratings — published 1991
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (Hardback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 793 ratings — published 2003
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 15,326 ratings — published 2001
La Cour des ténèbres (Vampyria, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 8,042 ratings — published 2020
Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,995 ratings — published 2011
To Dance with Kings (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,660 ratings — published 1988
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,608 ratings — published 2006
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 601 ratings — published 2002
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 408 ratings — published 2004
Athénaïs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 925 ratings — published 2002
The School of Mirrors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 2,419 ratings — published 2022
L'etichetta alla corte di Versailles: Dizionario dei privilegi nell'età del Re Sole (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.03 — 38 ratings — published 2016
A Day with Marie Antoinette (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 142 ratings — published 2015
Glitter (Glitter, #1)
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avg rating 3.58 — 3,936 ratings — published 2016
The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 251 ratings — published 1953
The Sun King's Garden: Louis XIV, Andre le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 52 ratings — published 2006
Madame de Pompadour: A Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 543 ratings — published 2000
Madame de Pompadour (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 2,135 ratings — published
Angelique (Angelique: Original version, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 3,158 ratings — published 1956
Abundance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 10,537 ratings — published 2006
Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 375 ratings — published 2006
Versailles confidentiel: Amours et intrigues à la cour du roi de France (LA LIBRAIRIE VU)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published
The Shadows of Versailles (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 145 ratings — published
Versailles: Enquête historique (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2015
Le Versailles de Louis XIV le fonctionnement d'une résidence royale au XVIIe siècle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2009
Complot à Versailles (Complot à Versailles, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 413 ratings — published 1993
La Cour des ouragans (Vampyria, #3)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,178 ratings — published 2022
La Cour des miracles (Vampyria, #2)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,640 ratings — published 2021
Les comédiennes de monsieur Racine (Les Colombes du Roi-Soleil, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,025 ratings — published 2005
Little (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 14,421 ratings — published 2018
The Queen's Confession (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,107 ratings — published 1968
The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,498 ratings — published 2002
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 7,325 ratings — published 1997
Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,823 ratings — published 2006
Becoming Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette, #1)
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avg rating 3.81 — 6,849 ratings — published 2011
Farewell, My Queen (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.37 — 1,023 ratings — published 2002
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 10,111 ratings — published 2000
Merivel: A Man of His Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,559 ratings — published 2012
The Enemies of Versailles (The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy #3)
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avg rating 4.04 — 754 ratings — published 2017
The Rivals of Versailles (The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy #2)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,212 ratings — published 2016
Bitter Greens (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 8,047 ratings — published 2012
Phèdre (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 25,461 ratings — published 1677
Louis XV (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 117 ratings — published 1984
The Sun King: Louis Fourteenth at Versailles (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,638 ratings — published 1966
The Lacemaker and the Princess (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,389 ratings — published 2007
“Louis the 14th, as we know, liked to think of himself as the sun. The dazzling light that irradiated all around him. Like that it may have been, but there was very little warmth. Let no one imagine that life at Versailles was fun. It was, for the most part, bitterly cold, desperately uncomfortable, poisonously unhealthy, and of a tedium probably unparalleled. The most prevalent emotion was fear. Fear of the king himself, fear of his absolute power, fear of the single faultless word or gesture that might destroy one's career, or even one's life. And what was one's life anyway? The ceaseless round of empty ceremonial leading absolutely nowhere, offering the occasional mild amusement, but no real pleasure. As for happiness, it wasn't even to be thought of. Of course, there were lavish entertainments, balls, masques, operas, how else was morale to be maintained? But absentees were noted at once and the reasons for their absence the subject of endless inquiries. Social death, or worse, could easily result.”
― France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
― France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
“As the light faded on that cold afternoon, Brătianu presented Rumania’s case. Rich and polished to the point of absurdity, Brătianu had a profound sense of his own importance. He had been
educated in the Hautes Ecoles in Paris, and never let anyone forget it; he loved to be discovered lying on a sofa with a book of French verse in a languid hand. Nicolson, who met him at a lunch early on in the conference, was not impressed: “Brătianu is a bearded woman, a forceful humbug, a Bucharest intellectual, a most unpleasing man. Handsome and exuberant, he flings his fine head sideways, catching his own profile in the glass. He makes elaborate verbal jokes, imagining them to be Parisian.” Women rather liked him.”
― Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
educated in the Hautes Ecoles in Paris, and never let anyone forget it; he loved to be discovered lying on a sofa with a book of French verse in a languid hand. Nicolson, who met him at a lunch early on in the conference, was not impressed: “Brătianu is a bearded woman, a forceful humbug, a Bucharest intellectual, a most unpleasing man. Handsome and exuberant, he flings his fine head sideways, catching his own profile in the glass. He makes elaborate verbal jokes, imagining them to be Parisian.” Women rather liked him.”
― Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
