Louis XIV, King of France

This fast-paced story is another of those that Haywood planned as a warning against passion. Set at the court of France, it features a virtuous woman (niece to the historical character Madame de Montespan

EG issued a translation from the recent Souvenirs of the marquise de Caylus : Memoirs, Anecdotes, and Characters of the Court of Lewis XIV; she is identified as the translator of the life and...

Both these tales by CG are set in France and founded on French history, the former in the early eighteenth century and the latter near that century's end. The action of The Lettre de Cachet...

In 1857 GF took the unusual step of publishing in Paris a novel written in French: La Comtesse de Bonneval , histoire du temps de Louis XIV, with an introduction by P. Douhaire ...

AF issued Love and Louis XIV : The Women in the Life of the Sun King, a multiple biographical study which had been in its early stages in 2002.

Anne and André Dacier were presented to the king while they were still Protestants, without any very positive results ensuing.

King Louis XIV favoured them with apartments in the Louvre Palace, the royal residence in the centre of Paris, which became their home.

James III had been recognised by Louis XIV in 1701 (disregarding the claim of Queen Anne ) as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

HB visited Queen Mary and received a pass allowing her to travel to Europe in quest of the French king , and of an end to the Nine Years War.

Despite her own past conversion, JB says she has made her French author speak the English of the Church of England, in an unusual attempt to bring Catholic devotional practices to the attention of devout...

Fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes writes that although she was an aristocrat and has no appearance of being a rebel, she had been in some difficulty in King Louis XIV 's court, and promulgated in...