Sun Court Bibliography

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Louis XIV bibliography;

Louise de la Vallière bibliography;

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Louise de la Vallière bibliography

  • — . Si La Valliere m'Etait Contee.... Compiled by the family that own the chateau at Reugny. 2006. [740]
  • Auriac, Gabrielle Basset d’. Les deux Pénitences de Louise de La Vallière. Perrin; Paris; 1924. [630]
  • Bertière, Simone. Les Femmes du Roi-Soleil. Éditions de Fallois; Paris; 1998. [613]
  • Blunt, Wilfrid. Sebastiano; The Adventures of an Italian Priest, Sebastiano Locatelli, during his journey from Bologna to Paris and back 1664-1665. James Barrie; London; 1956. [479]
  • Bonnet, Charles. "Documents inédits sur Mademoiselle de La Vallière, tirés des minutes du notaire royal de Saint-Germain-En-Laye." Revue de l’histoire de Versailles et de Seine-et-Oise. Librairie Léon; 1904; pgs. 161-176. [606]
  • Bossuet, Jacques Benigne. Sermon pour la Profession de Madame Françoise de la Baume le Blanc de La Vallière, Duchesse de Vaujour. Librairie de l’art Catholique; Paris; 1914 [408
  • Brizeuz, Julien August P. Mémoirs de Madame de la Vallière. Elibron Classics; www.elibron.com; 2003. Unabridged facsimile of 1829 edition published by Mame and Delaunay-Vallée, Paris. Tome 1 [527a], tome II [527b].
  • Bussy-Rabutin. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules. Union Gérérale d’Éditions; Paris; 1966. [575]
  • Carré, Henri. Mademoiselle de La Vallière; de la cour de Louis XIV aux Grandes Carmélites, 1644 – 1710. Librairie Hachette; Paris; 1938. [631]
  • Chantelou, Paul Fréart de. Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini’s Visit to France. Princeton Univ. Press; Princeton; 1985. [463]
  • Conley, John J. The Suspicion of Virtue; Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Cornell Univ. Press; Itaca and London; 2002. [545]
  • Desgranges, Francoise. Vie de duchesse de La Vallière, 1644-1710. Les Editions de l’Etoile; Montreal; 1946. [678]
  • Dworkin, Karin Eliina. Royal Mistress, Bride of God; The Life of the Duchess of Vallière. Master’s thesis, 1998. [636]
  • Ferval, Claude. The Life of Louise de La Vallière; the Martyr of Love. Trans. by Sidney Dark. Brentano’s; New York; 1914. [547]
  • Fraser, Antonia. Love and Louis XIV; the Women in the Life of the Sun King. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; London; 2006. [797] Doubleday Canada; Toronto; 2006. [798]
  • Gacon-Dufour, Marie A. J. Mémoires; Anecdotes Secrètes, Galantes, Historiques et inédites sur Mesdames de la Vallière, de Montespan, de Fontanges … (etc.). Tome 1. Elibron Classics; net; 2003. Replica of Collin; Paris; 1807 edition. [570]
  • Huertas, Monique de. Louise de la Vallière; De Versailles au Carmel. Pygmalion, Gérard Watelet; Paris; 1998. [401]
  • Lair, J. Louise de La Vallière et la Jeunesse de Louis XIV. 4th edition. Librairie Plon; Paris; 1907. [453a]
  • Lair, Jules. Louise de la Vallière and the Early Life of Louis XIV. Trans. From the French forth edition by Ethel Colburn Mayne. G.P.Putnam's Sons; New York; 1908. [453b]
  • Lair, Jules. Louise de la Vallière and the Early Life of Louis XIV. Trans. From the French forth edition by Ethel Colburn Mayne. Hutchinson & Co.; London; no year given. [453]
  • Norton, Lucy. The Sun King and His Loves. The Folio Society. London. 1982. [75]
  • Petitfils, Jean-Christian. Louise de La Vallière. Perrin/Paris/1990. [407]
  • Rouge, Le Petit Home. The Favourites of Louis XIV. The Gorham Press; Boston; no date given. [458]
  • Sanders, Joan. La Petite; The Life of Louise de la Vallière. Houghton Mifflin Company; Boston; 1959. [389]
  • Trouncer, Margaret. A Courtesan of Paradise. Faber and Faber Limited; London (24 Russell Square); March, 1936. [384
  • Valogne, Catherine. Louis XIV et Louise de La Vallière a Versailles. Librairie Payot Lausanne; Payot & Lausanne; 1964. [461]
  • Whyte-Melville, G. J. Rosine and Sister Louise. Ward, Lock & Co.; London; 1899. [637]
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