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The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles

The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles - Paperback

by Nancy Mitford
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nancy Mitford, Philip Mansel (Introduction by)Series:New York Review Books (Paperback)Publish date:2012-05-08Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590174913ISBN-10:1590174917UPC:9781590174913Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Royalty, Historical, EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.02 x 5.29 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCSM0RPBM2
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 ?lan, 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 Si?cle.

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590174913ISBN-10:1590174917UPC:9781590174913Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Royalty, Historical, EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.02 x 5.29 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCSM0RPBM2
Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, about the foibles of the English upper class. Nancy Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954; available as an NYRB Classic), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970). In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin's disease.

Philip Mansel is the author of six books dealing with French history, including a life of Louis XVIII (1981), The Court of France, 1789-1830 (1989) and Paris Between Empires (2001). He is currently at work on a life of Louis XIV.
Publisher: New York Review of Books

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Nancy Mitford

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