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FROM: "Margaret White" <[removed]@ilanet.slnsw.gov.au>
DATE: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:48:07 EST+10

Client would like to find title of book she read over 30 years ago.
Set in France in reign of the “Sun King” Louis XIV (I think that’s
correct as she remembers Madame de Montespan featured in the
book) – the story of a country squire whose wife became involved in
with unsavoury group in Paris: black masses, loose living,
something about a convent school as a cover for something else
featured. Apparently it ended happily with squire returning to his
country estate with someone else (how? who?). Client says well
written (ie not rubbishy) and she thinks it had a pen and ink, black
and white cover. I know this sounds desperate but so is client! Any
help would be gratefully appreciated.

Maggie W
from a wet and windy Sydney


Margaret White
Reference Librarian
State Library of New South Wales
Macquarie Street
Sydney 2000
NSW Australia

[removed]@slnsw.gov.au

FROM: Barbara Perkins <[removed]@irving.lib.tx.us>
DATE: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:34:17 -0600

Could this be Angelique and the King, by Sergeanne Golon?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret White [[removed]@ilanet.slnsw.gov.au]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 10:48 AM
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: Louis XIV
>
> Client would like to find title of book she read over 30 years ago.
> Set in France in reign of the "Sun King" Louis XIV (I think that's
> correct as she remembers Madame de Montespan featured in the
> book) - the story of a country squire whose wife became involved in
> with unsavoury group in Paris: black masses, loose living,
> something about a convent school as a cover for something else
> featured. Apparently it ended happily with squire returning to his
> country estate with someone else (how? who?). Client says well
> written (ie not rubbishy) and she thinks it had a pen and ink, black
> and white cover. I know this sounds desperate but so is client! Any
> help would be gratefully appreciated.
>
> Maggie W
> from a wet and windy Sydney
>
>
> Margaret White
> Reference Librarian
> State Library of New South Wales
> Macquarie Street
> Sydney 2000
> NSW Australia
>
> [removed]@slnsw.gov.au

FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
DATE: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:24:28 -0600 (CST)

This rang a bell with me and I have been racking my brain trying to
remember. The book I recall may not be the same one your patron is
looking for. A Lady at Bay by Edgar Maass is about that historical
incident. If your patron is interested in a non-fiction account,
she might try The Affair of the Poisons: Louis XIV, Madame de Montespan,
and One of History's Great Unsolved Mysteries by Frances Mossiker.

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