Mistresses of Versailles #1
Atria
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
Featuring: Pauline Nesle; Louise Nesle; Diane Nesle
432 pages ISBN: 1501102966 EAN: 9781501102967 Kindle: B00UDCI430 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
A sumptuous and sensual tale of power, romance, family,
and
betrayal centered around four sisters and one King.
Carefully researched and ornately detailed, The
Sisters
of Versailles is the first book in an exciting new
historical fiction trilogy about King Louis XV, France’s
most “well-beloved” monarch, and the women who shared his
heart and his bed.
Goodness, but sisters are a
thing to fear.
Set against the lavish
backdrop
of the French Court in the early years of the 18th
century,
The Sisters of Versailles is the extraordinary
tale
of the five Nesle sisters—Louise, Pauline, Diane,
Hortense,
and Marie-Anne—four of whom became mistresses to King
Louis
XV. Their scandalous story is stranger than fiction but
true
in every shocking, amusing, and heartbreaking detail.
Court intriguers are beginning to sense that young
King
Louis XV, after seven years of marriage, is tiring of his
Polish wife. The race is on to find a mistress for the
royal
bed as various factions put their best foot—and
women—forward. The King’s scheming ministers push Louise,
the eldest of the aristocratic Nesle sisters, into the
arms
of the King. Over the following decade, the four
sisters—sweet, naïve Louise; ambitious Pauline;
complacent
Diane, and cunning Marie Anne—will conspire, betray,
suffer,
and triumph in a desperate fight for both love and
power.
In the tradition of The Other Boleyn
Girl, The Sisters of Versailles is a clever,
intelligent, and absorbing novel that historical fiction
fans will devour. Based on meticulous research on a group
of
women never before written about in English, Sally
Christie’s stunning debut is a complex exploration of
power
and sisterhood—of the admiration, competition, and even
hatred that can coexist within a family when the stakes
are
high enough.
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