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    <![CDATA[The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV]]>
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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