Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon

Then follow many more adventures in colonial North America – specifically, in French Acadia – involving French and English settlers, tribal natives and pirates. In successive books, she marries at a young age the romantic and talented Joffrey de Peyrac, Count of Toulouse gets her domestic bliss destroyed when King Louis XIV has her husband executed on trumped up charges descends into the underworld of Paris emerges and through a turbulent second marriage gets admittance to the court at Versailles loses her second husband in war, just as she had started to truly love him, and subsequently refuses to become the King's mistress finds that her first husband is after all alive but is hiding somewhere in the Mediterranean sets out on a highly risky search, gets captured by pirates, sold into slavery in Crete, taken into the harem of the King of Morocco, stabs the King when he tries to have sex with her, and stages a daring escape along with a French slave who becomes her lover gets back to France, only to be put under house arrest in her ancestral home and raped by rampaging royal soldiers, which arouses the province to a rebellion which is brutally put down finds refuge with a Huguenot family and – just as they are threatened by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes – is saved in the nick of time by her long-lost first husband appearing at La Rochelle and taking them all to America in his ship and also being reunited with her children, whom she had thought dead but were alive and well in America.

The eponymous protagonist, Angélique Sancé de Monteloup, is a 17th-century woman born into the provincial aristocracy in the west of France. Only ten of the thirteen novels have been translated into English. Originally published from 1957 to 1985, the novels have reportedly sold 150 million copies worldwide and have been adapted into six feature films, several theatre productions, a Japanese manga series, and a French ' global manga' comic book series. Series of historical adventure romance novels by Anne Golon Angélique AuthorĪdventure fiction, historical fiction, romanceĪngélique is a series of thirteen historical adventure romance novels written by French author Anne Golon.

Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon