This is a story of brilliance, order and sophistication, of supreme confidence and great achievement - that begins in uncertainty and ends in iconoclasm.
About the Author
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is the author of numerous books - including the immensely successful Montaillouand Carnival - and many articles. He is a researcher with a high international reputation, and the diversity of his work and range of his publications have made him one of the foremost specialists on France's monarchical period.
Features
* The greatest age of France told by France's greatest living historian. * The definitive narrative account of Louis XIII's and XIV's extraordinary reigns. * The final volume to appear in Blackwell's acclaimed History of France. * Brilliant and readable translation.
