by Fernando Díaz-Plaja · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408010302
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«Madame Du Barry: Del lecho de un rey a la tabla de la guillotina» is the biography by Fernando Díaz-Plaja (Planeta, paperback, 234 pages, in Spanish).
Biography of Jeanne Bécu, Countess Du Barry (1743-1793), the last favourite of Louis XV. It recounts her rise from modest origins to becoming an influential figure at the French court, as well as the luxury and intrigues that surrounded her and her tragic end on the guillotine after the French Revolution.
Volume 14 of the Mujeres Apasionadas collection, with first edition of October 1993; includes bibliography and index.
For readers of historical biographies interested in the 18th-century French court and female figures such as Jeanne Bécu.
Spanish writer and historian (1918-2012)
