A Rose of Savoy

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Excerpt from A Rose of Savoy: Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Duchesse De Bourgogne, Mother of Louis XVCharles Emmanuel II, a child of three, and the regency in the hands of his widow, Christine of France, Madame Royale as she was called.1 Madame Royale naturally inclined towards the country of her birth, and for many years French in¿uence predominated at the Court of Turin. Her policy was continued by Marie Jeanne Baptiste de savoie-nemours, 2 the second wife of Charles Emmanuel II, 3 likewise called Madame Royale, a beautiful, fascinating, and intelligent, but dis solute and unscrupulous woman, who, on her husband's death, in 1675, also assumed the reins of government, and was even more blindly devoted to French interests than the previous regent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.