A woman's life in the court of the Sun King : letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, 1652-1722 /
On 16 November 1671, Liselotte von der Pfalz, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Elector of Palatine, was married to Philippe d'Orléans, "Monsieur," the only brother of Louis XIV. The marriage was not to be a happy one. Liselotte (known in France as Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d&...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
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1984.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description French equivalent / Équivalent français |
| Summary: | On 16 November 1671, Liselotte von der Pfalz, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Elector of Palatine, was married to Philippe d'Orléans, "Monsieur," the only brother of Louis XIV. The marriage was not to be a happy one. Liselotte (known in France as Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, or "Madame") was full of intellectual energy and moral rigor. Homesick for her native Germany, she felt temperamentally ill-suited to life at the French court. The homosexual Monsieur, deeply immersed in the pleasures and intrigues of the court, shared few of his wife's interests. Yet, for the next fifty years, Liselotte remained in France, never far from the center of one of the most glorious courts of Europe. And throughout this period, she wrote letters -- sometimes as many as forty week -- to her friends and relatives in Germany. It is from this extraordinary body of correspondence that A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King has been fashioned. As introduced and translated by Elborg Forster, the letters have become the remarkable personal narrative of Liselotte's transformation from an innocent, yet outspoken, girl into a formidable observer of great events and human folly. |
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| Item Description: | "Based on a text originally published in German in 1958 by Langwiesche Verlag, Ebenhausen, as Liselotte von der Pfalz, Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz, Duchesse d'Orléans, Madame, Briefe"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | lx, 287 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page xlix) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801831598 9780801831591 0801856353 9780801856358 |