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Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty

January 10, 2020

Haslip started writing historical biographies in the 1930s and 1940s, and though this one came out in 1991, just a few years before her death, it reads like a book written decades before. Certainly the changes in the study and writing of history that were in place by the early '90s are invisible here; she writes about gender, race, slavery, politics, class, for example, in ways that evoke earlier decades--and not in a good way. For example, I cringed every time she wrote about Zamor, an enslaved Indian boy in du Barry's service for years, whom Haslip repeatedly calls things like "her little blackamoor." That would have been nasty in 1941, but it's appalling in 1991. And when she laments his betrayal of du Barry after her arrest during the Terror, wondering what on earth such a sweet woman could have done to make him so vindictive, my first thought was "owning him? that would do it." And Haslip is weirdly essentialist about gender and class, referring repeatedly to du Barry's natural femininity that makes her delight in long bat

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The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon

Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family's fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her way to the center of power at Versailles, the most opulent and ambitious court in all Europe. At fifteen, she was married off to the forty-two-year-old satirical poet Paul Scarron, a former roué now grievously deformed by rheumatism-"a sort of human Z," as he described himself. Despite his ailments, Scarron presided over the liveliest and most scandalous literary salon in Paris, and Françoise quickly became its most prized ornament. After Scarron's death, she enjoyed a merry widowhood in the fashionable Marais district, in the company of the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos and

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Madame du Barry

Mistress of Louis XV

For other uses, see Dubarry.

Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (28 August 1744 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason — particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She is also known as "Mademoiselle Vaubernier".

In 1768, when the king wished to make Jeanne maîtresse-en-titre, etiquette required her to be the wife of a high courtier, so she was hastily married on 1 September 1768 to Comte Guillaume du Barry. The wedding ceremony was accompanied by a false birth certificate, created by Jean-Baptiste du Barry, the comte's older brother. The certificate made Jeanne appear younger by three years and obscured her poor background. Henceforth, she was recognized as the king's official paramour.^[1]

Her arrival at the French royal court scandalized some, as she had been a courtesan and came from humble beginnings. She was shunned by many, including Marie Antoinette, whose