Showing posts with label related figures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label related figures. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Non-Fiction: Related Figures

The court of Louis XVI

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elisabeth de Feydeau

A unique look at the final years of the ancient regime in France, through the eyes of the queen's official perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon.

Anne Vallayer Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie Antoinette

The catalog of the first exhibition devoted to Anne Vallayer-Coster includes 175 color and 50 black-and-white reproductions of her work, as well as several essays about the artist and her popularity among 18th century collectors - including Marie Antoinette, who became the artist's most important patron.

The court of Louis XV

Madame du Barry: the Wages of Beauty by Joan Haslip

A brief, romantic biography about the last mistress of Louis XV.

Fiction: Related Figures

The court of Louis XV

Madame Du Barry by Jean Plaidy

Another book in the extensive Plaidy historical fiction collection, this book details the life of one of the most (in)famous mistresses of Louis XV.

Louis the Well Beloved by Jean Plaidy

Jean Plaidy takes readers from the death bed of Louis XIV through the coming-of-age and reign of Louis XV, the first in her three-book French Revolution series.

The Road to Compiegne by Jean Plaidy

No longer Louis the Well Beloved, this public's growing resentment toward their former beloved king is the backdrop as the king meets and loses several of his most famous mistresses, such as the influential Madame Pompadour.