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A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France (Contributions to the Study of World History)
A Lust for Virtue Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in SeventeenthCentury France - Contributions to the Study of World History
Author: Philip F. Riley
Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780313317088
ISBN-10: 0313317089
Publication Date: 6/30/2001
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Praeger
Book Type: Hardcover
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