The Sun King and his Loves - Folio Society edition

The Sun King and his Loves

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The Sun King and his Loves - Folio Society edition
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The Sun King and his Loves

Lucy Norton

Edition year 1982
Binding Cloth
Weight 0.5 Kg
Pages 160
Dimensions 25.2 × 15.8 cm

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The Sun King and his Loves, by Lucy Norton. 96 illustrations, 41 in colour, showing contemporary paintings, drawings and prints. Bound in blue cloth with colour-printed paper on the front board. Genealogical endleaves in colour. Glassine dust-jacket. 25.2x15.8cm. 160pp. The Presentation Volume for 1983

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The Sun King and His Loves explores the romantic relationships and court life of Louis XIV of France. Against the setting of Versailles and the highly regulated world of the Bourbon monarchy, it considers the king's mistresses, marriages and personal attachments alongside the politics, ceremony and rivalries of his long reign, offering a more intimate perspective on the ruler who became the symbol of French absolutism.

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