"The Memoirs of Louis XV and XVI - Volume I" from Princess Marie Louise of Savoy. Member of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy (1749-1792).

"The Memoirs of Louis XV and XVI - Volume VII" from Princess Marie Louise of Savoy. Member of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy (1749-1792).

In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.