The Secret History of Isabella of Bavaria

The last novel by the most notorious French writer of the 18th century – Marquis de Sade. In 1764, the Marquis de Sade discovered documents in the Chartres monastery in Dijon that allowed him to shed light on the life story of one of the most ambiguous women of the Middle Ages – Queen of France Isabella of Bavaria, the wife of the mad king Charles VI, eccentric, cruel, loving pleasures of the flesh and art, but in her own way a very realistic ruler who advocated for the establishment of an eternal alliance between France and England…