The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan
The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan
by Madame La Marquise De Montespan
HISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS.
THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF MADAME LA MARQUISE DE MONTESPAN.
Written by Herself
Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV.
BOOK 1.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
Historians have, on the whole, dealt somewhat harshly with the fascinating Madame de Montespan, perhaps taking their impressions from the judgments, often narrow and malicious, of her contemporaries. ...