Louis XIV.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Description: The author presents Louis as the personification of a glorious era in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and literature flourished. "The King's activities in war and politicsa re relegated to the periphery. While the complex figure of Louis himself occupies the center of the state, Mr. Cronin studies ... such figures as Racine, Moliere, Lully, Mignard, Mansart, Le Notre, Vauban, Cassini."
Notes: "Sources and notes": p. 355-371.