This biography of Louis XIV, king of France (1643–1715), from historian Wilkinson (The Princes in the Tower), is an entertaining, if unnecessary, work that brings no new understanding of the ...
He became king at the age of 4 and reigned for more than 70 years. Voltaire said that the 17th century belonged to him. Napoleon, exiled to St. Helena, called him the greatest of French kings. He made ...
If one mark of a successful biographer is the ability to make an uninteresting figure interesting, on that alone Veronica Buckley's "The Secret Wife of Louis XIV" deserves recommendation. Francoise ...
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