Inspired by the life of Suzanne de Rougé du Plessis-Bellière, known as the Marquise du Plessis-Bellière. Angélique and the King (French: Angélique et le Roy) is a 1959 novel by Anne Golon and Serge Golon, the second novel in the Angélique series.dbr:Charles_Ogier_de_Batz_de_Castelmore,_Comte_d'Artagnan.dbr:Françoise-Athénaïs_de_Rochechouart,_Marquise_de_Montespan.dbr:Angélique,_the_Marquise_of_the_Angels.In 1966, the book was adapted into a film titled Angelique and the King. There are some parallels between the career of Angélique's second husband, Philippe de Plessis du Bellière, and that of the historical Comte d'Artagnan, well-known through his fictionalized depiction in Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers and its sequels.

Angélique's marriage to Jeoffrey de Peyrac is thought to be parallel to that of the daughter of Madame de Sévigné, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné to the Comte de Grignan. The novel is set during the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). Through a series of adventures, the King becomes increasingly enamored of her, but the book is also heavily concerned with the ambivalent relationship between Angelique and Marquis Philippe du Plessis Bellerie. As the story opens, Angelique has already known great love, great loss, trauma, poverty and violence, but her heart is still empty. Once you've met Angelique, you won't want to miss any of the sensational Angelique novels. Angelique has loved, intrigued, hated and fought her way into the hearts of million of readers all over the world. Her stormy adventures have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a King. HAVE YOU MET ANGELIQUE? She's one of the most irresistible heroines in the history of fiction. Angelique was determined to find new ways to keep the King's passion a flame. But the emerald-eyed enchantress knew Louis discarded beautiful mistresses like toys. Fought over by every exquisite woman in France, there was only one luscious jewel Louis really wanted to possess the irresistible Angelique.

Louis XIV was one of history's great lovers.

Angelique and the King by Anne Golon