The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV

Study of the social, moral, and political life of France in the seventeenth century; W.H. Lewis describes the effects of the powerful personality of KLouis XIV as it confronted a nation torn with grievances in the provinces, the church, and the court. With color and spirit. Lewis re-creates the life and times of the famous king and the magnificent and climatic era that preceded the fall of the old regime.