by Catherine Hermary-Vieille · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253155089
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«La Bourbonnaise» is the historical novel by Catherine Hermary-Vieille, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback, in French, with 542 pages.
The novel narrates the rise of Jeanne du Barry, a woman of humble origins who becomes the favorite of Louis XV and comes to exert great influence at the French court. The plot recreates her relationship with the king, courtly intrigues and the controversial figure of a king's mistress who marked eighteenth-century France.
The novel was originally published in 2001; this edition is number 15508 in the Le Livre de Poche collection and was published in 2003.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction about real female figures, with a particular interest in the eighteenth-century French court.
Catherine Hermary-Vieille is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina 1981, for Le Grand Vizir de la nuit.
