Vienna and Versailles
Subtitle: The Courts of Europe's Dynastic Rivals, 15501780 (New Studies in European History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780521822626
Subjects: Architecture; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Political science & theory; Social history; History: World; Habsburg, House of; History - General History; Austria; Intellectual life; Europe - Austria & Hungary; Bourbon, House of; History / Europe / General; Europe - General; Court and courtiers; History; Vienna (Austria)
First sentence: A court, Furetiere noted in his 1690 dictionary, is 'the residence of a king or sovereign prince', but also 'the king and his council, or ministers', and 'the officers and the suite of a prince'.