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King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV de Philip Mansel

King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV

Autor Philip Mansel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2022

Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019

'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore

Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversation, especially with women: the power of women in Louis's life and reign is a particular theme of this book. Louis was obsessed by the details of government but the cost of building palaces and waging continuous wars devastated the country's finances and helped set it on the path to revolution. Nevertheless, by his death, he had helped make his grandson king of Spain, where his descendants still reign, and France had taken essentially the shape it has today.

King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure in English. It draws on all the latest research to paint a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomises the idea of le grand monarque.

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ISBN-13: 9780241960585
ISBN-10: 0241960584
Pagini: 640
Ilustrații: 24pp colour
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Philip Mansel is one of Britain's leading historians of France and the Middle East. His previous books include Louis XVIII, The Eagle in Splendour: Napoleon and his Court, The Court of France: 1789-1830, Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852 and Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the Institute of Historical Research and the Royal Asiatic Society, and he is President of the Conseil Scientifique at the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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A superb biography ... wonderfully detailed and fluent ... Mansel is alive to every nuance
A superb biography of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel,the best non-French historian of France. Historical biography does not get better than this
The life of the Sun King, under whom France founded colonies in Africa, America and the East, isrichly treated...This nuanced study makes you feel for the old monster.
Mansel ... treads the line between the academic and the accessible effectively ...No other English-language biography has so successfully given us a portrait of him as man and monarch...His grasp of the sources is superb
A superb biography...wonderfully detailed and fluent...Huge amounts of information have been digested...Mansel is alive to every nuance of rank and relation and a master of the mechanics of life at Versailles and the other royal palaces. This mastery naturally extends to dynastic relations and to the diplomatic history of Louis's reign...The portrait of Louis that emerges from this titanic effort is compelling: a man of large appetites, capable of intense affection and loyalty, vengeful, gracious, vain, hard-working, hardened in the exercise of his own will, susceptible to flattery, conceited in his isolation, capricious, unforgiving and stubborn ...It seems hard to believe ... that this biography will ever, in English at least, be surpassed.
Almost everything about Louis XIV - the size of his palaces, the length of his reign, the height of his heels - was on a gargantuan scale. ... Such splendour is there not just to dazzle, but also to deceive, and excavating the "real" Louis poses a major challenge for any biography.Philip Mansel's impressive new survey - the best single-volume account of the reign in any language - moves deftly between these fictive and objective worlds. He revels in the fêtes and fireworks, the frescoes and tapestries, that glorified Louis's rule. But he is never blind to Louis' failings and absurdities, and clearly delineates how the "absolute monarch" was never as absolute as he wishes the world to think.... Mansel brings this teeming, sybaritic, ultra-competitive Versailles vividly to life
Mansel is master of the well-chosen anecdote and of the pithy summary. Interesting details sit comfortable within the big picture that he portrays...this is ascholarly, readable and impressively wide-ranging account of the longest reign in history.
Excellent though Mansel is on the larger picture - you will find no more comprehensive biography of this extraordinary monarch - his genius lies in unpacking the complexities of Louis' royal court.
Time and space both yield before Mansel's authorial ambition on quite as vast a scale as Louis's own territorial, reputational, amatory and gastronomic appetites.
On a scale suitable to its subject,King of the Worldis in one way an extended moral fable ...Mansel tells the story of these wars fluently and fairly
To do [Louis XIV] justice and encapsulate his person, his plans, his successes and his failures, all which involved a dizzying cast of characters and a mind-numbing web of relationships, is no easy task.With his extensive studies of court ritual and his sympathy for the Bourbons, Philip Mansel is the man for the job. ... Mansel's descriptions of how Versailles functioned are masterful and high-entertaining.
Mansel has mastered a bewildering array of primary and secondary sources dealing with his man and his time period, and he's invested his entire narrative with a kind of tightly compressed narrative energy that has the most unlikely effect imaginable: it turns a 600-page biography of King Louis XIV into a genuine page-turner of a reading experience. ...a genuinely impressive work...one of the year's grandest biographies..

thorough, scholarly and fluent... breath-taking... indispensable
Philip Mansel's superbKing of the World: The Life of Louis XIVwill become a classic.Magisterial and definitive, this is the life's work of one of our leading historians.
a magnificent study of the life of Louis XIV. He shaped his own age and, partly because of some of his mistakes, helped to shape the future of France as well.
A wonderfully meticulous look at Louis XIV (1638-1715) from a leading historian of France. . . . An impressive, comprehensive biography of the Sun King-a must-add to any Francophile's library.
Philip Mansel'sKing of the World: The Life of Louis XIVis just a masterwork and a superlative delight, written with sensitivity and worldliness, political acuity and personal empathy all in Mansel's usual elegant prose.
Mansel is a welcome prize for any reviewer. You will have a judicious guide, able to make well-founded assessments based not only on an understanding of the archives and printed sources, their riches and ambiguities, but also of the culture from which their assumptions stem.
No other English-language biography has so successfully given us a portrait of him as man and monarch ... superb.
The best single-volume account of the reign in any language
Authoritative ... Mansel is ideally positioned to examine Louis' record ... Time and space both yield before Mansel's authorial ambition
A superb biography ... wonderfully detailed and fluent ... Mansel is alive to every nuance

Descriere

Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019

'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore

Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversation, especially with women: the power of women in Louis's life and reign is a particular theme of this book. Louis was obsessed by the details of government but the cost of building palaces and waging continuous wars devastated the country's finances and helped set it on the path to revolution. Nevertheless, by his death, he had helped make his grandson king of Spain, where his descendants still reign, and France had taken essentially the shape it has today.

King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure in English. It draws on all the latest research to paint a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomises the idea of le grand monarque.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Maps
Family Trees

Introduction: A Thousand Years of France

1 The Gift of God
2 Our Good City of Paris
3 The Struggle for France
4 M. le Cardinal
5 The Power of Queens
6 Fouquet’s Fall
7 Making France Work
8 The Pursuit of Immortality: The Louvre and Versailles
9 Conquering Flanders
10 Fighting the Netherlands
11 To the Rhine
12 The King Outdoors
13 Inside Versailles
14 Inside Louis XIV
15 The Global King: From the Mississippi to the Mekong
16 The Huguenot Cataclysm
17 England Changes Sides: The Flights of King James
18 France against Europe
19 Spain Changes Sides: The Accession of King Philip
20 The Triumph of Europe
21 Towards the Precipice
22 Nemesis Averted
23 Funeral Games
24 The Shadow of Versailles
 
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index