A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV
by
Charles Drazin
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Late in 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man in the Iron Mask. From a glorious zenith as Louis XIV's first minister and Cardinal Mazarin's protégé and eventual protector; builder...