When she is six years old, she uses “bone magic,” a form of ancient magic, to tame a wild white stallion named Diablo-a horse no one else has been able to tame. Louise is the daughter of an impoverished minor nobleman living in the countryside near Tours, France. Gulland brings Louise to life, and makes her a highly sympathetic character. I have also heard she is a character in the recent television series Versailles, but I have never seen the series, so I don’t know how much of a role she plays. If today’s readers know about Louise de la Vallière at all, they probably know of her through Alexandre Dumas’ novel of the same name, one of the sequels to The Three Musketeers, which, of course, is a highly fictionalized account. She tells the story of the young Louis XIV’s first mistress, Louise de la Vallière. In Mistress of the Sun, Sandra Gulland, author of the outstanding Josephine Bonaparte trilogy, takes the reader to the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
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