King of the World - Mansel Philip

WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King, Louis XIV' Simon Sebag MontefioreA TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE and TABLET BOOK OF THE YEARLouis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory of the present-day United... Zobrazit více