“That beastly bourgeois Pompadour was one thing a common prostitute is quite another kettle of fish.”Īfter decades of suffering the King's endless stream of Royal Favorites, the princesses of the Court have reached a breaking point. Jeanne bursts into his life and, as the Comtesse du Barry, quickly becomes his official mistress. In the final installment of Sally Christie’s “tantalizing” ( New York Daily News) Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, Jeanne Becu, a woman of astounding beauty but humble birth, works her way from the grimy back streets of Paris to the palace of Versailles, where the aging King Louis XV has become a jaded and bitter old philanderer.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |