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THE RIVALS OF VERSAILLES
By: Sally Christie
Mistresses of Versailles #2
Atria Books
April 2016
On Sale: April 5, 2016
ISBN: 1501102990
EAN: 9781501102998
Kindle: B0112OOQX4
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Historical | Fiction Family Life
And you thought sisters were a thing to fear. In this captivating follow-up to Sally Christieβs 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. The year is 1745 and King Louis XVβs bed is once again empty. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a beautiful girl from the middle classes. As a child, a fortune teller had told young Jeanneβs destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the Kingβs arms. All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a more suitable mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivalsβincluding a lustful lady-in-waiting, a precocious fourteen-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sistersβshe helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them, war rages, discontent grows, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution. Told in Christie's celebrated witty and modern style, The Rivals of Versailles will delight and entrance fans as it brings to life the court of Louis XV in all its pride, pestilence, and glory.
Mistresses of Versailles THE SISTERS OF VERSAILLES
#1.0
β’ September 2015
 THE RIVALS OF VERSAILLES
#2.0
β’ April 2016
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