The Man Who Outshone The Sun King A Life Of Gleaming Opulence And Wretched Reversal In The Reign Of Louis Xiv

Author: Charles Drazin

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Price : $30.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780306817571
Publisher : Hachette Books
Imprint : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Publication date : 01 September 2008
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2008, First US edition, first printing. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine, unclipped d/w. This copy presents as brand new.

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Late in 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man in the Iron Mask. From a glorious zenith as Louis XIV's first minister and Cardinal Mazarin's protégé and eventual protector; builder of the stunningly opulent chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte; and patron of the arts and lover of beautiful women, Fouquet had suffered a wretched decline. The story of the rise and fall of Nicolas Fouquet is both compelling and unforgettable. Charles Drazin's beautifully written and vivid account brings to life Fouquet's remarkable gains in fortune, influence, and power, as well as the lavish and hazardous world of the royal court in seventeenth-century France.

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