by Françoise Chandernagor · Quetzal Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725643181
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«A Alameda do Rei» is the historical novel by Françoise Chandernagor, published by Quetzal Editores in paperback (496 pages, in Portuguese).
A novel narrated as memoirs: the life of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, from her birth in a prison in Niort and her poor childhood in the Antilles to becoming the lover and secret wife of Louis XIV, almost queen of France. It portrays the splendour and contradictions of the seventeenth-century French court.
The Portuguese edition is a translation of the original novel L'Allée du roi (1981), signed by Mário Dias Correia and Maria da Graça Correia.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the reign of Louis XIV and the inner workings of the court of Versailles.
Françoise Chandernagor is a French writer. The daughter of André Chandernagor, she is a former student of the École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969.
