women in french history

Murder in the palace: queen Christina at fontainebleau

The Palace of Fontainebleau, home to French kings and queens for more than five centuries, has seen its share of royal intrigues and scandals. But never had the walls been stained with blood as they were on a cold autumn day in 1657, when one of the queen of Sweden’s men lay dying, bleeding to […]

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The Château de Maintenon and the woman who was almost a queen

With a medieval tower, Renaissance turrets, a gallery built specially for a king and the romantic ruins of an aqueduct, the château de Maintenon is a fairytale castle. And it all once belonged to the secret wife of Louis XIV. Madame de Maintenon, the wife of King Louis XIV Frances d’Aubigné was born in 1635

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