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Readers who love court life, royal intrigue and true love stories will enjoy this book. It suits anyone curious about Louis XIV before Versailles, and about Molière and Racine at court.
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What happens to a princess who joins a rebellion hoping to marry a king, and then loses? In 1652 the Grande Mademoiselle, first cousin of Louis XIV, rides into exile at a half-ruined castle, her dreams of glory gone. The young King returns to Paris, and a new age begins.
Arvède Barine follows Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans from 1652 to her death in 1693. She draws on the princess's own Memoirs, the Memoirs of Louis XIV, and letters and journals of the time. You meet an exile who learns to love reading, a king who teaches himself to rule, and a love story that ends in separation.
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- 1Exile turns a rebel princess into a readerFree
- 2Her family tries to take her fortune
- 3Mazarin rules and the King learns to wait
- 4The King takes power and goes back to school
- 5Charity, not the Court, saved the starving provinces
- 6A young Court mixes pleasure, wit and bold plays
- 7Mistresses, poison and the fall of a favourite woman
- 8A princess falls for a Gascon dwarf
- 9Lauzun's dungeon and the price of his freedom
- 10Absolute rule outlives the woman who fought it
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Exile turns a rebel princess into a reader
The Fronde was a failed revolution, and Barine treats it as a dividing line in French history. After it, a weary nation accepted absolute rule. The Grande Mademoiselle, who had fired the Bastille cannon at the King's troops, pays with exile at Saint-Fargeau in 1652.
The castle is close to a ruin, with missing doors and windows, and it is full of rats. On the night she arrives she weeps in front of her whole household. By the fourth day she is back, camps in a cellar, recovers her good humour and begins to fix the place up.
She has read almost nothing, and she resolves to learn to like reading by sheer will. She listens to readers while she sews and orders a theatre. Yet her pride stays stubborn, and the exile teaches her nothing about the new age.
Exile can build character, yet it cannot teach you how the world has moved on.
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Questions about Ludwig XIV. und die Große Mademoiselle, 1652–1693
What is Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle about?
It follows the cousin of Louis XIV, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, from her exile after the Fronde in 1652 to her death in 1693. Alongside her life, it shows how the young King built absolute power.
Who was La Grande Mademoiselle?
She was the Duchess of Montpensier, a granddaughter of Henri IV and cousin of Louis XIV. She was one of the richest women in France and took an active part in the Fronde rebellion.
Who was Lauzun and what happened between him and Mademoiselle?
Lauzun was a small, witty Gascon nobleman and favourite of the King. Mademoiselle fell deeply in love with him, and the book follows their near marriage, his imprisonment and their quarrels.
Is the book a true story and what are its sources?
Yes, it is history. Barine draws on the Memoirs of Mademoiselle and of Louis XIV, letters of Madame de Sévigné, journals, gazettes and prison reports. It was written in French in the early twentieth century.
What is the main message of the book?
Barine argues that absolute monarchy broke France's old liberties and idled its nobility. She uses Mademoiselle's life to show how a whole generation was changed by the failure of the Fronde.
Cite this edition
Barine, Arvède. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652–1693. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/louis-xiv-and-la-grande-mademoiselle-1652-1693.
Barine, A. (2026). Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652–1693. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/louis-xiv-and-la-grande-mademoiselle-1652-1693 (Original work published 1905)
Barine, Arvède. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, 1652–1693. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/louis-xiv-and-la-grande-mademoiselle-1652-1693.
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