THE KING'S WAY: Recollections of Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

by Francoise Chandernagor

A$40 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

Wife to the Sun King. Translated by Barbara Bray. Pp. viii +498 last blank , pictorial endpapers, sources, notes; med. 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper; bottom fore-corner of a few leaves faintly creased; Collins, London, 1984. First U.K. edition. *Historical novel, based on Madame de Maintenon's voluminous correspondence. Item #184223

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