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The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles

The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles

Mansel, Philip
Mitford, Nancy

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresFrench History

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1590174917
ISBN13: 9781590174913
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: May 8 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
A devastatingly witty biography of Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles--at once a historical record of late 17th- and early 18th-century France and a gossip-filled narrative of lovers and rivals, artists and warriors (New York Times)

The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. With characteristic élan, Nancy Mitford reconstructs the daily life of king and courtiers during France's golden age, offering vivid sketches of the architects, artists, and gardeners responsible for the creation of the most magnificent palace Europe had yet seen. Mitford lays bare the complex and deadly intrigues in the stateroom and the no less high-stakes power struggles in the bedroom. At the center of it all is Louis XIV himself, the demanding, mercurial, but remarkably resilient sovereign who guided France through nearly three quarters of the Grand Siècle.

Brimming with sumptuous detail and delicious bons mots, and written in a witty, conversational style, The Sun King restores a distant glittering century to vibrant life.

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