

How to Do It Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians. Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 1938. Passions and Politics a Biography of Versailles. The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore, London 1989,īarry, Joseph. Brother to the Sun King Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Mistress of the House Great Ladies and Grand Houses. īabelon, Bajou, Constans, Pougetoux, Salmon. Les deux Pénitences de Louise de La Vallière. False Dawn Women in the Age of the Sun King. The Best Behavior The Course of Good Manners - from antiquity to the present - as seen through courtesy and etiquette books. Les collèges au féminin Les Ursulines: enseignement et vie consacrée aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Land’s End Press NY 1971 reproduction of a 1787 publication. The School of Fencing, with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions peculiar to the Art. By the editors of Time-Life Books Virginia 1999. What Life was Like During the Age of Reason France AD 1660-1800. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge.

The Horse with a Treatise on Draught and a Copious Index. 2006, the latest edition, full of wonderful detail. Compiled by the family that own the chateau at Reugny. Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI, taken from the Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Ladies’ Maid to Madame de Pompadour, and from the Journal of the Princess Lamballe. Reflets des Grands Siècles a Notre-Dame. Touchard Lussac-les-Châteaux bought at the little “museum” 2004 or so. Les Fêtes à la Cour du Roi Soleil 1653-1715. “Madame de Montespan” Leavitt, Throw and Co Jan. An Owl Book, Henry Holt and Company New York 1990. Travel Guide to Europe 1492 Ten Itineraries in the Old World. Wordsworth Classics Hertfordshire, UK 1996. Musée des Antiquités Nationales Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1988. De la naissance à la glorie: Louis XIV a Saint-Germain, 1638-1682. (The numbers in brackets are for my own reference, so please ignore.) Also, some of these books are fiction and might not be noted as such.

Note: I’m a novelist, not an academic, so this bibliography may contain errors.
