The Sun King
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品牌: Nancy MitfordPhilip Mansel
基本信息出版社:NYRB Classics (2012年5月8日)平装:272页正文语种:英语ISBN:1590174917条形码:9781590174913商品重量:367 gASIN:1590174917您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介The Sun Kingis a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and
Versailles, recreating the daily life of the King, his court,
and his ministers during France’s golden age. Nancy Mitford
introduces us to the architects, artists, and gardeners tasked
with transforming a modest hunting lodge into the most magnificent
palace Europe had ever seen, delves into the complex
and deadly court intrigues afoot in the new capital, and
chronicles Louis’s love affairs with a succession of mistresses
including the brilliant feuding marquises of Montespan and
Maintenon. Along the way we find Jean-Baptiste de Lully and
his fiddlers, floating behind the King’s gondola on summer
nights in Versailles; Racine translating Latin aloud to his
insomniac monarch; thePremier Médecin du Roi, Guy Crescent
Fagon, bleeding one royal after another to death—and at the
center of them all the demanding, mercurial, but remarkably
resilient personality of France’s sovereign for nearly three
quarters of theGrand Siècle.
Brimming with sumptuous detail and deliciousbons mots, and
written in a witty, conversational styleThe Sun Kingrestores a
distant glittering century to vibrant life.媒体推荐“Nancy Mitford excels in depicting both the brilliant romantic showcase and the recessed world of power. . . . No historian writing in English has given a better pen-picture of Versailles in its heyday.” —Time
“A brilliantson et lumièreperformance.” —Guardian
"Nancy Mitford was particularly well-equipped to write about Louis XIV: She spent much of her adult life in France and possessed a sharp eye for detail." —Washington Post Book World
“Nancy Mitford gives vivid, indeed searching, portraits of the Grand Monarch, and of his awe-struck relations and courtiers . . . she summarizes a wealth of information about the king’s long, eventful life at Versailles . . . Readers will wish that her book were twice as long.” —Sunday Times(London)
“Devastatingly witty, Miss Mitford [was] one of Britain’s most piercing observers of social manners.” —The New York Times
