false 779767 4 Pleasures and palaces are, of course, an enormously entertaining part of this vivid account of France under Louis XIV. More important is the author's exploration of the political, economic, social and artistic forces that developed during the long reign of the Sun-King. It was an age of contradictions and compromises and high taxes and formal manners. And to the day he died Louis XIV ate with his fingers and acted like God. The opening account of Louis XIV's private life and loves sets the pace for this witty, provocative account of a century that, like our own, was a time of transition, dissatisfaction and progress. This was the age of Moliere, Racine, Corneille...the age of the salons and the graceful correspondents. And also an age that sent thousands of Huguenots to the galleys, the notorious death ships that served as seventeenth-century concentration camps. 765794 1953 The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV total:22|5:7|4:4|3:11|2:0|1:0| 22 84 34 6 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 12 15:25:50 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 10:42:30 -0800 2009 The Splendid Century was that there were so many phrases in French, but that's a fault in my education, not t...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 1970 Fri Aug 07 11:19:20 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 11:21:55 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 29 07:05:29 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 07:06:27 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed May 06 08:01:42 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 08:03:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 15:23:01 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 15:30:16 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Oct 20 21:46:26 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 21:48:24 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 07:27:53 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 07:27:53 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 20:24:49 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:24:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 19 20:30:27 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 16:36:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 14:27:26 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 14:27:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 21 19:10:37 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 19:10:37 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jun 11 14:45:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 14:45:41 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 07 09:17:03 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 09:17:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 04 10:58:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 10:58:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 15 04:42:57 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 15:01:36 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 04:42:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 14 08:40:40 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 08:53:49 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Apr 16 19:39:34 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 19:39:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 21:18:08 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 21:18:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 10:21:12 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 06 13:38:21 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Feb 06 21:01:17 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 21:01:17 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=779767