Blog Tour & Giveaway: The Rivals of Versailles by Sally Christie

Hello, dear readers! I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend! Today on Passages to the Past I am so excited to be hosting Sally Christie's Blog Tour for The Rivals of Versailles and I have a chance for one of you to win a copy!

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The Rivals of Versailles (The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy #2) by Sally Christie

Publication Date: April 5, 2016
Atria Books
eBook & Paperback; 448 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

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And you thought sisters were a thing to fear! In this compelling follow-up to Sally Christie’s clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles.

The year is 1745 and Louis XV’s bed is once again empty. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a beautiful girl from the middle classes. As a child, a fortune teller had mapped out Jeanne’s destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the King’s arms.

All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeoise interloper with a more suitable mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivals—including a lustful lady-in-waiting, a precocious 14-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sisters—she helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them, war rages, discontent grows, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution.

Enigmatic beauty, social climber, actress, trendsetter, patron of the arts, spendthrift, whoremonger, friend, lover, foe: history books say many things about the famous Marquise de Pompadour. Alongside Catherine the Great of Russia and Maria Theresa of Austria, she is considered one of the three most powerful women of the 18th century, and one of the most influential royal mistresses of all time.

In The Rivals of Versailles, Christie gets to the heart of Pompadour’s legendary relationship with Louis XV, France’s most “well-beloved” king. Pompadour was not only his mistress, but his confidante and influential political adviser for close to twenty years. Full of historical insight, decadence, wit and scandal, The Rivals of Versailles is about one woman’s trials and triumphs, her love for a king, and her role in shaping a nation.

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About the Author

04_Sally Christie_AuthorI'm a life-long history buff - and I mean life-long. One of the first adult books I read was Antonia Fraser's masterful Mary, Queen of Scots. Wow! That book just blew my little ten year old mind: something about the way it brought the past right back to life, made it live again on the page. I date my obsession with history to that time, but I'd been writing ("writing") ever since I was able to hold a pencil.

If you'd told my 12-year old self that I'd not be a writer when I grew up, I would have laughed you out of the tree house. With a few detours along the way, to work overseas in consulting and development, as well as to go to business school, I've finally come full circle to where I think I should be.

I currently live in Toronto and when I'm not writing, I'm playing lots of tennis; doing random historical research (old census records are my favorite); playing Scrabble, and squirrel-watching (the room where I write has French doors leading out to a deck; I avidly follow, and feed, a scruffy gang).

For more information please visit Sally Christie's website. You can also find her on Goodreads and Pinterest.

Blog Tour Schedule

Sunday, May 1
Review at A Book Drunkard
Spotlight & Giveaway at Passages to the Past

Monday, May 2
Review at Caroline Wilson Writes

Tuesday, May 3
Interview at The Maiden's Court

Wednesday, May 4
Review at To Read or Not to Read
Review at With Her Nose Stuck In A Book
Review, Guest Post, & Giveaway at History Undressed

Thursday, May 5
Review at Bookish

Friday, May 6
Review at History From a Woman's Perspective

Monday, May 9
Review at Book Lovers Paradise
Guest Post at leeanna.me

Tuesday, May 10
Review at Ageless Pages Reviews

Wednesday, May 11
Review at Oh, for the Hook of a Book!

Thursday, May 12
Review at The Lit Bitch
Interview at Oh, for the Hook of a Book!

Friday, May 13
Review at #redhead.with.book

Sunday, May 15
Review at Svetlana's Reads and Views
Review & Giveaway at Historical Fiction Obsession

Giveaway

To win a paperback copy of The Rivals of Versailles by Sally Christie please leave a comment below and be sure to include your email address or alternate way to contact you should you win.

Rules

– Giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on May 11th. You must be 18 or older to enter.
– Giveaway is open to US & Canada residents only.
– Only one entry per household.
– All giveaway entrants agree to be honest and not cheat the systems; any suspect of fraud is decided upon by blog/site owner and the sponsor, and entrants may be disqualified at our discretion
– Winner has 48 hours to claim prize or new winner is chosen.

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10 comments:

  1. The Rivals of Versailles sounds captivating and fascinating. Thanks for this great historical feature and giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  2. Would love to win--really enjoyed the first one in this series!!

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  3. This novel would be greatly enjoyed. It sounds extremely interesting. Many thanks, elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  4. I would love to win this!
    Sheelagh Russell-Brown
    sheelagh_rb@yahoo.com

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  5. Thank you so much for the giveaway! I can't wait to dive into this trilogy :).

    marykate(dot)sullivan711(at)gmail(dot)com

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  6. I already have The Sisters... and I'd like to get the whole set eventually. Thanks for the chance to win this one. crs(at)codedivasites(dot)com

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  7. I love HF that takes place at Versailles. This one sound intriguing! teddyr66 (at) yahoo.com

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  8. I am not immune to this magnet -- count me in, Amy! I really enjoyed the first book in this series. If needed, try shamy at post dot harvard dot edu OR see facebook correspondence, which I think contains my cell #...:-)

    Gratefully, Kara S

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  9. This sounds like a fascinating read!
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  10. Thanks! Sounds fascinating!
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