Sex with Kings Quotes

“History offers us not a single recorded cell phone conversation between Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan in which His Most Christian Majesty wishes he were a tampon, or photos of Nell Gwynn sunbathing topless in her walled garden near Whitehall Palace. It is most certainly our loss.”
― Eleanor Herman, Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

“Boring, religious, and intellectually limited, Marie Leczinska was called one of the two dullest queens in Europe by her own father, the other dull queen being his wife. Marie”
― Eleanor Herman, Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

“The more I see of men,” she grumbled in one, “the more I love dogs.”50”
― Eleanor Herman, Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

“When the destiny of a nation is in a woman’s bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. — CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE”
― Eleanor Herman, Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge