The "Sun King" Louis XIV is historically the first of three larger-than-life rulers who have decisively shaped France's history in modern times. Like Napoleon and Charles de Gaulle, he provided a surplus of splendour and power from which France's national self-image draws to this day.
But who was this man who set the style for an entire age, who founded absolutism, set new standards of splendour with his Palace of Versailles, cruelly persecuted the Huguenots and covered Europe with wars of unheard-of brutality? In his latest book, French historian Johannes Willms creates a fascinating portrait of the man whose words "L'état c'est moi" have become immortal.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Willms, Johannes
Title
Louis XIV. Der Sonnenkönig und seine Zeit
Details
20 ill. 608 pp.
State
new
Verlag C. H. Beck oHG Wilhelmstr. 9 80801 München Deutschland
