Countess Dubarri. Intimate story of the favorite of Louis XV
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Despite the rare beauty, fate did not promise the rainbow future to Jeanne Beku, the illegitimate daughter of the village seamstress and the Franciscan monk. In France, the eighteenth century was considered an indisputable truth that the useful daughters of the poor are intended solely to please the whims of noble gentlemen. This fate did not pass Jeanne, who had fallen into the clutches of a secular adventurer and vault of Jean-Batista Dubarri from a young age. She earned the glory of the most coveted courtesan of Paris and, in the end, became the official mistress of the aging king Louis XV.
How did Jeanne take a place that was empty after the death of the incomparable "Queen Rococo", the omnipotent marquise de Pompadur? Why did the most demanding court of Europe come to terms with the presence of a former courtesan? What led the daughter of the people to the guillotine, on which, during the Great French Revolution, mostly aristocrats were executed? Why are the judgments about this woman so diametrically opposed to?
You will get acquainted with the true history of the royal favorite by reading this book, the first in Russia, dedicated to the extraordinary history of take -off and the fall of Countess Dubarri
How did Jeanne take a place that was empty after the death of the incomparable "Queen Rococo", the omnipotent marquise de Pompadur? Why did the most demanding court of Europe come to terms with the presence of a former courtesan? What led the daughter of the people to the guillotine, on which, during the Great French Revolution, mostly aristocrats were executed? Why are the judgments about this woman so diametrically opposed to?
You will get acquainted with the true history of the royal favorite by reading this book, the first in Russia, dedicated to the extraordinary history of take -off and the fall of Countess Dubarri
Author:
Author:Sotnikova Natalia Nikolaevna
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-907024-15-1
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