Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon : religion, power and politics : a study in circles of influence during the later reign of Louis XIV, 1684-1715

The thesis examines the career of the marquise de Maintenon at the court of Louis XIV, to whom she was secretly married in 1684. Maintenon has traditionally been depicted either as a scheming religious bigot, or as a powerless and dutiful wife whose only concerns were her finishing school at Saint-C...

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Main Author: Bryant, Mark
Published: Queen Mary, University of London 2001
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249175