Richelieu's Desmarets and the century of Louis XIV
By: Hugh Gaston Hall.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean, 1595-1676.; Richelieu, Armand Jean Du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642 -- Friends and associates.; Académie française -- History.; Authors, French -- 17th century -- Biography.; Performing arts -- France -- History -- 17th century.; Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.; France -- Court and courtiers -- Biography.; France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
Description: "Jean Desmarets (1600?-1676) was a late Renaissance "universal man": first Chancellor and founder-member of the Academie-francaise, last jester of the French royal court, star performer in ballets, novelist, playwright, poet, architect, inventor, and mystic. He was also the first man to publicize the notion of "a century of Louis XIV." Hall examines that notion by looking afresh at Desmarets' vigorous career and relating the "century of Louis XIV" to its origins in the reign of Louis XIII." http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/89016373-d.html.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-378) and index.