Louis XIV

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ISBN-10:

0002720728

ISBN-13:

9780002720724

Author(s): CRONIN, VINCENT
Released: Jan 01, 1996
Publisher: Harpercollins
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
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Description:

First published 25 years ago, this biography of the Sun King uses contemporary sources to examine what sort of monarch Louis XIV really was. The author's researches reveal a portrait of the man and an account of the principal events of his long reign (1642-1715). This book provides an overview of the entire civilization inspired by and reflecting the glory of the Sun King. Thus, while Louis occupies the foreground, artists like Racine, Moliere, Lully and Mansart, the architect of Versailles, share the middleground with politicians such as Cardinal Mazarin and Nicolas Fouquet and courtiers such as the king's mistress, Louise de La Valliere.












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