Wed. Nov.8

France has been very, very good to Antonia Fraser. Actually, royalty has been very, very good to Antonia Fraser. Some that get their heads sliced off, some that don't. Fraser wrote "Marie Antoinette" in 2001, and it was the basis for Sofia Coppola's revealing, if slow-moving film. (The movie ends, by the way, before the guillotine, in case you're squeamish.) Fraser also wrote "Mary Queen of Scots." She is now back with the Sun King. That would be Louis XIV. Her book "Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King" looks at that exactly. Louis, who came to power as a teen, liked to go to bed every night with his wife, but that left plenty of day-time hours for sexual lisasons. Randy fella. But then, as has been said, "It's good to be king." Fraser speaks at Brookline Booksmith Wed. Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. Free.

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