18. Ibid., p. 235.
19. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 126.
20. Ibid., p. 208.
21. Ibid., p. 228.
22. Ibid., pp. 233–234.
23. Ibid., pp. 235–236.
24. Bernier, p. 87.
25. Kent, p. 194.
26. Hausset, p. 69.
27. Smythe, p. 210.
28. Lever, p. 237.
29. Ibid.
30. Algrant, p. 234.
31. MacDonogh, p. 32.
32. Ibid.
33. Smythe, p. 264.
34. Ibid., p. 271.
35. Pöllnitz, p. 221.
36. Ibid., p. 225.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., p. 249.
39. Ibid., pp. 249–250.
40. Ibid., p. 251.
41. Ibid., pp. 252–253.
42. Wilson, p. 99.
43. Ibid., p. 182.
44. Ibid., p. 179.
45. Kent, p. 109.
46. Wilson, p. 137.
47. Ibid., p. 143.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid., p. 198.
50. Wilson, p. 190.
51. Carlton, p. 72.
52. Delpech, p. 106.
53. Williams, Rival Sultanas, p. 213.
54. Wilson, pp. 197–198.
55. Hardy, p. 35.
56. Williams, Rival Sultanas, p. 213.
Chapter Six: Loving Profitably—The Wages of Sin
1. Bierman, p. 188.
2. Andrews, p. 48.
3. Ibid., p. 126.
4. Ibid., p. 127.
5. Ibid., p. 176.
6. Hardy, p. 33.
7. Cronin, p. 179.
8. Andrews, p. 181.
9. Bierman, p. 127.
10. Williams, Rival Sultanas, p. 148.
11. Andrews, p. 253.
12. Haslip, Emperor and Actress, p. 247.
13. Ibid.
14. Aronson, p. 363.
15. Ibid., pp. 176–177.
16. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 95.
17. Andrews, p. 189.
18. Ibid., pp. 190–191.
19. Jerrold, p. 311.
20. Ibid., p. 46.
21. Ibid., p. 163.
22. Ibid., p. 218.
23. Ibid., p. 417.
Chapter Seven: Political Power Between the Sheets
1. De Gramont, p. 112.
2. Lewis, p. 101.
3. Ibid., p. 136.
4. Ibid., p. 146.
5. Ibid., pp. 219–220.
6. Ibid., p. 221.
7. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 99.
8. Williams, Rival Sultanas, pp. 116.–117.
9. Ibid., p. 119.
10. Ibid., p. 120.
11. Ibid., p. 122.
12. Ibid., p. 127.
13. Kent, p. 103.
14. Smythe, p. 176.
15. Kent, p. 182.
16. Algrant, p. 145.
17. Rappoport, p. 128.
18. Smythe, p. 320.
19. Smith, p. 128.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 146.
23. Ibid.
24. Somerset, p. 216.
25. Hervey, vol. 1, p. 40.
26. Trench, p. 191.
27. Ibid., p. 202.
28. Hardy, p. 91.
29. Trench, p. 274.
30. Ibid., p. 236.
Chapter Eight: Red Whores of Babylon—Public Opinion and the Mistress
1. Trench, p. 183.
2. Ziegler, p. 124.
3. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 312.
4. Algrant, p. 46.
5. Bernier, p. 133.
6. Mitford, p. 231.
7. Algrant, p. 290.
8. Haslip, Madame du Barry, p. 79.
9. Ibid., p. 92.
10. Ibid., p. 127.
11. Coote, p. 119.
12. Andrews, p. 136.
13. Ibid., p. 128.
14. Hardy, p. 22.
15. Ibid., p. 34.
16. Wilson, p. 120.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., p. 239.
19. Ibid.
20. Carlton, p. 2.
21. Seymour, p. 198.
22. Aronson, p. 337.
Chapter Nine: The Fruits of Sin—Royal Bastards
1. Hilton, p. 252.
2. Carlton, p. 6.
3. Williams, Last Loves of Henri of Navarre, p. 91.
4. Marvick, pp. 52.–53.
5. Ibid., p. 82.
6. Williams, Last Loves of Henri of Navarre, p. 93.
7. Lewis, p. 138.
8. Farquhar, p. 20.
9. Wilson, p. 155.
10. Williams, Rival Sultanas, p. 211.
11. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 293.
Chapter Ten: Death of the King
1. Ziegler, p. 378.
2. D’Orliac, p. 138.
3. Smythe, p. 301.
4. Ibid., p. 303.
5. Ibid., p. 306.
6. Carlton, p. 147.
7. Kent, p. 78.
8. Ibid., p. 81.
9. Williams, Rival Sultanas, p. 338.
10. Ibid.
11. Hardy, p. 39.
12. Williams, Rival Sultanas, p. 340.
13. Haslip, Madame du Barry, p. 102.
14. Ibid., p. 105.
15. Ibid., p. 201.
16. Rappoport, p. 140.
17. Stanhope, p. 333.
18. Haslip, Emperor and Actress, p. 272.
19. Aronson, p. 345.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., p. 346.
22. Ibid., p. 375.
Chapter Eleven: The End of a Brilliant Career and Beyond
1. Wheatley, p. 654.
2. Andrews, p. 197.
3. Lewis, p. 267.
4. Mahoney, p. 353.
5. Mossiker, Sévigné, p. 302.
6. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 260.
7. Smythe, p. 15.
8. Kent, p. 225.
9. Smythe, p. 346.
10. Ibid., pp. 346.–347.
11. Ibid., p. 347.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 348.
14. Ibid., p. 350.
15. Ibid., p. 351.
16. Trench, p. 37.
17. Hardy, p. 51.
18. Ibid., p. 52.
19. Ibid., p. 57.
20. Ibid., p. 62.
21. Ibid.
22. Kent, p. 309.
23. Andrews, p. 249.
24. Shellabarger, p. 179.
25. Williams, Rival Sultanas, p. 231.
26. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 125.
27. Mossiker, Sévigné, p. 80.
28. Ferval, p. 275.
29. Cronin, p. 178.
30. Mossiker, Sévigné, p. 182.
31. Ibid.
32. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 92.
33. Cronin, p. 179.
34. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 108.
35. Flower, p. 122.
36. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 306.
37. Ibid., p. 308.
38. Flower, p. 123.
39. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 325.
40. Ibid.
41. Hilton, p. 305.
42. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 326.
43. Flower, p. 124.
44. Seymour, p. 395.
45. Ibid., p. 396.
46. Ibid., p. 397.
47. Ibid., p. 275.
48. Hilton, p. 292.
49. Kelen, p. 117.
50. Ibid.
51. Aronson, p. 362.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., p. 363.
54. Ibid., p. 371.
Chapter Twelve: Monarchs, Mistresses, and Marriage
1. Steegman, p. 213.
2. Ibid., p. 282.
3. Birmingham, p. 158.