Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715
by
Tony Claydon, Charles-Édouard Levillain
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Louis XIV - the ’Sun King’ - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted within national frameworks and traditions. Thus in France Louis is still chiefly remembered...