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September 1, 2004
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Louis XIV. Anthony Levi. Constable. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxii + 391 pages. ISBN 1-84119-425-5. This biography of the Sun King follows on the heels of the author's highly praised study of Cardinal Richelieu. It seeks to discover 'what it felt like' to reign as Louis did, 'with the upbringing, power, wealth and prestige he was either given or achieved, over the creation of the culture of seventeenth-century France'. Of all the Bourbon kings, Louis XIV remains the best known for his long reign (he succeeded in 1643 at the age of five and died in 1715), his extravagances and his building of Versailles. Historians have long debated how bad an effect his rule had on ...

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