Poison at Court; Certain Figures of the Reign of Louis the Fourteenth
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780766191839
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History; History - General History; History: World; France; Europe - France; History / France
First sentence: AS a child Louis XIV must have been conscious of Italian domination: his country, his mother, alike, ruled by a Mazarin; a legacy, as it were, of Richelieu's, this astute and insinuating person, this prince of the Church, who had known how to make himself indispensable to the Queen-Mother in perhaps more ways than one.