Chronicles the life of Madame de Pompadour, the eighteenth-century woman of questionable background whose charm and ambition earned her a place of favor and power among the court at Versailles, serving King Louis XV for nearly twenty years in several capacities.
In the 1670s, fourteen-year-old Marion, who has a talent for making perfumes, gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's mistress at the palace of Versailles, where she gets caught up in palace intrigue.
murder, infanticide and Satanism at the court of Louis XIV
Somerset, Anne
2004
Chronicles the events surrounding the black magic and poisoning scandal that enveloped France during the reign of Louis XIV, describing how high-standing members of society were tried and executed for witchcraft during the late seventeenth century.
