CRITIQUE – The great historian confirms in this breathtaking story that she is not only an outstanding storyteller but also a brilliant scholar who knows how to evoke without fail this courtly world where women dominate, contrary to a very reductive contemporary vision.
Completing the great saga of the queens of France since the Renaissance, the first two volumes of which were published in 2022 and 2023, here is the last volume devoted to the queens of the 18th century.e century and favorites, from Marie Leszczynska to Marie-Antoinette, via Madame de Pompadour or Madame du Barry, the two mistresses of the Bien-Aimé.
The great historian Simone Bertière confirms in this breathtaking story that she is not only an outstanding storyteller but also a brilliant historian who knows how to evoke without fail this courtly world where women dominate, contrary to a very reductive contemporary vision. We are witnessing the gradual collapse of the greatest throne in Europe, under the effect of multiple factors, including the power of women is not negligible, without being decisive. Basically, in this society much more open than that of the court of Louis XIV, feminine power plays an ambiguous role. The fair sex is, however, very powerful in Versailles to do or…
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