by Catherine Hermary-Vieille · FRANCE LOISIRS / O. ORBAN · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724220858
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«La Marquise des ombres» is the historical novel by Catherine Hermary-Vieille, published by France Loisirs / O. Orban in hardcover (474 pages, in French).
Set in 17th-century France, the work follows Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, an aristocrat linked to a famous poisoning scandal. It reconstructs the intrigues of the nobility, the courtly atmosphere, and the figure of a woman who went down in history as a poisoner.
Full title: «La Marquise des ombres ou la Vie de Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, marquise de Brinvilliers». Published in 1984.
For readers of historical fiction and period chronicles interested in real figures embroiled in scandals of the French court.
Catherine Hermary-Vieille is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina 1981, for Le Grand Vizir de la nuit.
