Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. As the discontent grows, Louis seeks refuge in his extravagances and his mistress, the powerful Marquise de Pompadour. But how long will Paris stay silent when the death of the Marquise de Pompadour leads to yet another mistress influencing the King? No longer the well-beloved, Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular - the huge expense of his court and decades of costly warfare having taken their toll. Ignoring the unrest in Paris, Louis continues to indulge in frivolities. Suspicions, plots and rivalry are rife as Louis's daughters and lovers jostle for his attention and their own standing at Court. each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty, Victoria Holt for gothic. She also used the pen names Eleanor Burford (her birth name), Elbur Ford. She was an extremely prolific author who wrote under several pseudonyms, including Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy and Philippa Carr (her most famous ones). As the discontent grows, Louis seeks refuge in his extravagances and his mistress, the powerful Marquise de Pompadour. Eleanor Burford Hibbert (1906-1993) was a British author of historical fiction, gothic fiction and romance novels. No longer the well-beloved, Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular -the huge expense of his court and decades of costly warfare having taken their toll.
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