The Sun King - Nancy Mitford • BookLikes (ISBN:1299572561)

The Sun King

by: Nancy Mitford (author)

Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781299572560 (1299572561)

Publish date: January 1st 2012

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Biography, History, Literature, Cultural, Biography Memoir, France, 17th Century, 18th Century

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What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment rated it

12 years ago

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Once again, Nancy Mitford is the gossipy friend who happens to know quite a lot about 17th century France. The Sun King is a biography of both the French monarch and his home, Versailles. From the building of the palace to Louis XIV's many relationships, Mitford takes her informed but light-hearted ...

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15 years ago

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Read and enjoyed many, many years ago.

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quietism = a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God---256 pages here.I so want an orange tree in a silver pot!---Bernini also gained royal commissions from outside Italy, for subjects such as Louis XIV, Cardinal Richelieu, Francesco I ...

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