Louis XIV

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1964
Edition: First Edition

Description: 384 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers 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). The 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. Vincent Cronin has also written "Louis and Antoinette" and "Catherine, Empress of All the Russias".

ISBN: 9781860460920