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Louis XIV (Phoenix Press)

Louis XIV (Phoenix Press)

by PhilippeErlanger (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

Philippe Erlanger portrays Louis over the decades with a novelist's psychological insight. He shows the crucial effect of a childhood of neglect and humiliation, amid the horrors of civil war, on the formation of Louis' personality and his subsequent behaviour as king. The young man imbued with a fierce passion for life and love, the haughty autocrat who identified himself with the State, the creator of a spectacular style of leadership that became a tradition, the sovereign confronting death in the same inflexible manner in which he had confronted life - for more than half a century the solitary figure of Louis XIV dominated Europe.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 08 May 2003
ISBN 10: 1842126598
ISBN 13: 9781842126592
Book Overview: 'A brilliant, subtle portrait...The reader senses the joy with which M. Erlanger demolishes legends (on the subject of Louis XIV's paternity, for example), dissipates mysteries, and discovers new ones of his own' LE MONDE 'The best work of history written in France for a century' LE FIGARO

Author Bio
Philippe Erlanger was born in Paris in 1903. He was a founder of the Cannes Film Festival and worked for a time for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He received several literary prizes, including the Grand Prix d'Histoire de l'Academie Francaise.