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Love and Louis XIV
- The Women in the Life of the Sun King
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general, including his mother Anne of Austria, his two sisters-in-law who were Duchesses d'Orléans in succession, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, his wayward illegitimate daughters, and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his grandson.
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“A sparkling history which captures the giddy quality of the times.” (Sunday Telegraph)
“Vividly capturing 17th-century Europe's most extravagant court.” (Daily Express)
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- Diane
- 16-11-23
The Sun King
A moving story of the different women Louis loved. He was ruthless in getting who he wanted and doing what he wanted. The narrator has a great voice.
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- Kindle Customer
- 15-02-18
Educational
I thoroughly enjoyed this audio. I learned more from this than the programme which I also enjoyed. The narrator was easy to listen. I was never bored.
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- Susan Mayer
- 10-11-23
A narrative Lacking in excitement
Read by someone with impeccable French pronunciation, but I was often confused by the multiplicity of similar names (unavoidable I suppose). I was slightly familiar with all these women and was pleased to learn about them in more depth. But there was nothing exciting about this account, as apart from ‘one night stands’, Louis XIV had only 3 or 4 long term mistresses. I was more engaged by Antonia Fraser’s ‘Great Reform Act 1832’.
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- Corsaire
- 26-06-23
This is not Fraser at her best
Time hasn't been kind to this account of Louis XIV's court. It is a long and sadly unengaging account, with little in the way of insight or even interest in the characters of the various women. The title is a little misleading - the subtitle is more accurate, since Louis' sister, mother and other female courtiers take up much of the narrative. It feels as if nearly all the research was done from secondary sources, so one doesn't hear very often the real words of the king or the women around him. In short, not a very interesting listen and for this reader at least, not worth a credit.
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