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...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. As an ornithologist studying the noble birds at Louis XIV's Court of Versailles, Author Mitford is more interested in song and plumage than ecology, but her illustrated portrait of that resplendent monarch is a tidy job of dissection...
...bustling through the Third Biennial of Antiques. Set off by the Grand Palais' lavish decorations, including 500 trees and an artificial lake with swans, more than $10 million worth of objets d'art were on sale. Rarities included the child-sized billiard table given to King Louis XIV when he was twelve years old, and an art nouveau serpentine bracelet designed for Sarah Bernhardt...
Life among the humanoids of outer space-if such ever come to light-could not be more remote from the modern world than the bizarre and ceremonious existence of Louis XIV. With learning and flair, Nancy Mitford, the biographer of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour, employs an elegant and aphoristic style to match the complexity and splendor of her subject: the building of Versailles, and its principal inhabitant, the Sun King, revered as a demigod by his 20 million subjects...