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Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutiona

From the author of The King's Favorite-a new novel based on a dazzling and decadent true story of Restoration England. The daughter of a poor nobleman, Louise l

Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.

The daughter of a poor nobleman leaves the French countryside for the court of King Louis XIV, where she serves as a mistress and a spy, in this novel from auth

This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV offers dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to gra