Louis XIV at Versailles

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Louis XIV at Versailles
Folio Society
Biography & True Stories

Louis XIV at Versailles

Edition year 1953
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Gaston Goor
Translator Desmond Flower
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 236
Dimensions 22.8 × 14.9 cm

Edition details

Louis XIV at Versailles, a selection from the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. Translated and edited by Desmond Flower. Eight leaves of etchings by Gaston Goor. Bound in blue cloth with a design in silver by John Westwood. White dust-jacket printed in blue and black. 22.8x14.9cm. 236pp.

About the book

The palace became both a magnificent residence and a carefully controlled political environment in which the French nobility gathered around the king. The book explores court ceremony, architecture, fashion, politics and daily life at Versailles, showing how Louis used magnificence and ritual as instruments of royal authority. It offers a vivid picture of one of the most influential courts in European history and of the extraordinary culture that developed around absolute monarchy.

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