Love and Louis XIV
by Antonia Fraser | 
The Affair of the Poisons
by Anne Somerset | 
The Black Count
by Tom Reiss | 
Marie Antoinette
by Antonia Fraser | 
Ambition and Desire
by Kate Williams |
Madame de Pompadour
by Evelyne Lever |
Marie Antoinette
by Evelyne Lever |
The Rival Queens
by Nancy Goldstone | 
To the Scaffold
by Carolly Erickson | 
Madame de Pompadour
by Nancy Mitford |
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
by Robert Asprey |
Josephine
by Carolly Erickson | 
Madame de Pompadour
by Christine Pevitt Algrant | 
The Rose of Martinique
by Andrea Stuart | 
Napoleon
by Andrew Roberts | 
The Horror of Love
by Lisa Hilton | 
Paris Without End
by Gioia Diliberto | 
Versailles
by Tony Spawforth | 
Victor Hugo
by Graham Robb | 
Napoleon and Wellington
by Andrew Roberts |
In her superb new biography, Hilton chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, known as "the real Queen of France," who reigned as official mistress to Louis XIV during the most glorious period of "the splendid century."