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The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV
Author: Charles Drazin
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-...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780306817571
ISBN-10: 0306817578
Publication Date: 9/29/2008
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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