A Lust for Virtue
Subtitle: Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France (Contributions to the Study of World History)
Publisher: Greenwood Press; Praeger
Published: June 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780313317088
Subjects: Biography: historical; Biography: political; Crime & criminology; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; History - General History; History: World; France; Criminology; Ethnic Studies - General; History / Europe / General; Europe - France; 17th century; Christianity; Church and state; Counter-Reformation; History; History of doctrines; Louis; Sin
First sentence: Certainly Louis XIV was not the first monarch to imprison sinners, but his attack on sin caught most contemporaries by surprise.