The entire elite history of France of the 15th-18th centuries is considered by the scholar-historian and Sorbonne graduate Guy Chaussinant-Nogaret in the space of a magic triangle: king, queen, favorite. A series of queens pass before us - brilliant, strong and smart (Louise of Savoy, Anne of Brittany or Anne of Austria), sophisticated in intrigue (Catherine and Maria de Medici or Mary Stuart), as well as weak and faceless (Charlotte of Savoy, Claude of France or Maria Leshchin). skaya), and each of them is shown by the author vividly and uniquely. No less convincingly, the book recreates the images of famous favorites: Agnes Sorel, Louise Lavalliere, the Marquise of Pompadour, the Marquise of Montespan, Diane de Poitiers, who exert a secret and obvious influence on the life and politics of the kings. The author of the book has done a lot to understand the true role of women in the history of not only that distant romantic era, but also today’s increasingly feminized time.