Fifteen years prior, a fortune teller had mapped out young Jeanne's destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a stunningly beautiful girl from the middle classes. 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.
The King is inconsolable, but the way is now clear. She is dead, suddenly, from a high fever. I write this before her blood is even cold. In this scandalous follow-up to Sally Christie's clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles. "And you thought sisters were a thing to fear.
0 kommentar(er)
