Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King | Antonia Fraser

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King | Antonia Fraser | Entralling portrait of the rising and setting of the Sun King

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	Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Antonia Fraser Anchor, 2007 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Louis XIV, the highly-feted ?Sun King?, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women ? his wife Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon; and an array of courtesans ? moved in and out of the court. The highly visible presence of these women raises many questions about their position in both Louis XIV?s life and in France at large. With careful research and vivid, engaging prose, Fraser makes the multifaceted life of one of the most famous European monarchs accessible and vibrantly current.

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Good read

This book was a good factual read on Louis XIV. Anyone with an interest in Louis (or just the era) will enjoy this book. I found no factual errors.

Entralling portrait of the rising and setting of the Sun King

Antonia Fraser crafts a masterful biography spanning the life of Louis XIV -- using the relationships with the various women in his life (mother, wife, mistresses, daughter in-law, granddaughter in-law) as the pattern that she weaves her tapestry around.

Detailed but not overwhelming, she paints an enthralling picture of the Sun King and those in the court who orbited him. A great profile regardless of whether you know little about thi time period or you're seeking to enhance the depth of knowledge that you have.

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GREAT BOOK

this is a great book. the photos inside are great and its quality is amazing

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