Love and Louis XIV

Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly
explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in
his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de
La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon,
but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general, including
his mother Anne of Austria, his two sisters-in-law who were Duchesses
d'Orléans in succession, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, his wayward
illegitimate daughters, and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his
grandson.