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Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution

2002
Examines the history of France during the reign of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, provides information about everyday life in France during the revolutionary era, and includes a selection of contemporary writings.

Revolution

2010
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.

The orange trees of Versailles

2004
In the 1670s, fourteen-year-old Marion, who has a talent for making perfumes, gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's mistress at the palace of Versailles, where she gets caught up in palace intrigue.

The Sun King's garden

Louis XIV, Andr? Le N?tre, and the creation of the gardens at Versailles
2006
Traces the interlocking stories of the creation of the gardens and Versailles and the frienship between King Louis XIV and the low-born gardener Andr? Le N?tre.

Love and Louis XIV

the women in the life of the Sun King
2006
Offers a biography of Louis XIV that focuses on his relationships with women, discussing his mother, wives, mistresses, liaisons, and children.

The Sun King

1982

Louis XIV

1998
Studies the reign of Louis XIV in France and discusses his political views, the historical forces that influenced his choices, the nature of French monarchy, and other related topics.

The kings' mistresses

the liberated lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and her sister, Hortense Duchess Mazarin
2012
Illuminates the lives of the Mancini sisters, Marie and Hortense, who abandoned their arranged marriages and the court of Louis XIV of France to live lives on the run, winning the affections of kings and noblemen, spending their time gambling, disguising themselves as men, and publicly disputing the rights of their husbands over their lives.

Louis XIV and the greatness of France

1965
Examines the life and rulership of France's King Louis XIV to discover how his actions raised the country to its greatest glory, while at the same time forcing its citizens into poverty and misery, thereby sewing the seeds of the French Revolution.

Louis XIV

the other side of the sun
1983

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