The Splendid Century Author:W.H. Lewis In this study of the social, moral, and political life of France in the seventeenth, W. H. Lewis describes the effects of the powerful personality of Louis XIV as it confronted a nation torn apart by grievances in the provinces, the church, and the court. With color, spirit, and wit, Lewis re-creates the life and times of the famous king and the... more » magnificent climactic era that preceded the fall of the old regime« less