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A vivid survey of court politics, social rituals, and scandals surrounding French royal households, moving through ministerial power struggles, military episodes, dynastic marriages, conspiracies, and the shifting fortunes of favourites and regents. It mixes biographical sketches, anecdote, and descriptive detail to illustrate daily ceremonies, salon life, convent retirement, architectural settings, and financial and judicial scandals such as the Fouquet affair, while following the rise and fall of figures like Richelieu, Mazarin, Madame de Montespan, and Madame de Maintenon. The tone balances narrative anecdote and historical commentary to show how personal ambition and intimacy shaped high politics and culture.
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