A fascinating lady, Madame de Montespan.
She was heavily implicated in the Affair of the Poisons – and features in my novel about the event, The Shadows of Versailles.
She was heavily implicated in the Affair of the Poisons – and features in my novel about the event, The Shadows of Versailles.
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Dr Josephine Wilkinson
🍰A bit late (sorry !) 5 October 1640, baptism of Françoise de Rochechouart at Lussac-les-Châteaux. The future Madame de Montespan would go on to become perhaps the most famous and celebrated of Louis XIV's mistresses.
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And I must return to the second book in my series at some point. Instead, I'm stuck in the early Middle Ages...