Versailles : Un Château Au Féminin

Between sumptuous celebrations and daily life, representation and intimacy, petty intrigues and grand politics, what kind of Versailles did women live in for over three centuries?

This book offers a history of the Palace of Versailles through the women who left their mark on the place, from Maria Theresa of Austria, the self-effacing wife of the Sun King, to the influential mistresses of Louis XV, from the mischievousness of the young Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy to the sovereign poise of Marie Leszczynska, from her eight daughters - the irreducible Mesdames - to Marie-Antoinette, dauphine and then queen, not forgetting the friends, superintendents, ladies-in-waiting, ladies-in-waiting and palace ladies, merchants and artists.