Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Adult edited by Stephen Rollnick

edited by Stephen Rollnick

Bearing the Cross

clever dialogue and urbane one upmanship

three steps of charismatic communication: presents charisma as a tangible concept that

we must know who we are

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Adult edited by Stephen RollnickLouis XIV, the highly feted Sun King, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of womenhis mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Vallire, Athnas de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon; and an array of courtesansmoved in and