Ruth Kleinman is Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
"The first scholarly biography of the woman who was the wife of
Louis XIII and the mother of Louis XIV. Traditionally, scholars
have dismissed Anne as almost a nonentity--lazy, fat, stupid, and
of little influence in the government. Kleinman offers convincing
revisions of each of these assumptions."
--Choice
"This bright, never sluggish biography by a professor of history
reconstructs Anne's difficult marriage and her trying times as
regent for her young son immediately after the death of her
husband. Kleinman's account is important historiographically, for
it establishes the heretofore rather indistinct Anne as a definite
figure of quality and of consequence in the maintenance of the
French monarchy; it will also prove enticing for general readers of
royal biographies, for it is exceptional in depicting how royal
lives were led in the seventeenth century."
--Booklist
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