Tweets from Versailles

Liselotte von der Pfalz (1652-1722), a princess at the court of the Sun King, wrote letters as we write tweets today: untiringly and sometimes several times a day to the same addressee. Rather like an elderly lady who is always on the telephone. The princess came to Versailles as the wife of Monsieur, the brother Louis XIV, and lived at the most magnificent court of her day until her death. Her writings provide a picture of life as seen from the ...