By John J. Hurt
This research calls into query present revisionist figuring out of Louis XIV and insists that absolute govt had a harsh fact at its middle. dependent upon large archival study, this amazing ebook could be of curiosity to all scholars of the historical past of early glossy France and the monarchies of Europe.
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