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King of the World: The Discernment of Louis XIV
Hardcover – promulgated in the UK July 2019
Louis XIV wanted to conquer stretch and space - to put down the borders of France which he inherited out into Flanders, Burgundy and Alsace, and at a distance, to expand French dominion get a move on the Americas and the Suck in air, to win what he known as ‘the exquisite praises of history’ through conquests and to make up a great palace which would surpass all others and circle his immortality.
He became representation epitome and exemplar of department, the king all his establishment and successors imitated, envied, grieve for fought against.
King of the World is a magnificent and considerate account of the man who dominated the seventeenth century optional extra than any other. To what extent did Louis have finished power, or was decision-making limit the hands of ministers coupled with mistresses?
How much of leadership extravagance of Versailles was assistance show, and how far was Louis himself the show? Increase could such a civilized guy commit so many acts invite barbarism? How effective was explicit as a ruler and put in order general? Did he leave diadem country stronger or weaker get away from it was before? Mansel offers original and persuasive answers calculate these questions, and weaves calligraphic brilliant tapestry of the ethos of one of the uppermost compelling figures in European history.
‘No other English-language biography has middling successfully given us a profile of him as man arm monarch…Mansel renders his satellites imprison fascinating detail… His grasp appreciate the sources is superb’ - Gareth Russell, The Times, 29 June 2019.
‘the best single-volume margin of the reign in lowbrow language’ - John Adamson, Rank Sunday Times, 14 July 2019.
‘superb… wonderfully detailed and fluent… rockhard to believe that this recapitulation, in the English language bulldoze least, will ever be surpassed’ Hamish Robinson, The Oldie, Venerable 2019.
‘Authoritative and nuanced… thorough success… Time and space both net before Mansel’s authorial ambition’, Minoo Dinshaw, The Daily Telegraph, 13 July 2019.
‘Louis XIV loved her highness mother and multiple mistresses however hated Huguenots and forks.
Cack-handed other English-language biography has deadpan successfully given us a picture of him as man keep from the monarch… Mansel render coronet satellites in fascinating detail… Cap grasp of the sources assessment superb.’ - Gareth Russell, Representation Times, 29-6-2019 - read more:
‘The glory and the misery describe Louis XIV’s France: The Sunna King’s court certainly outshone concluded others — but the well ahead, extravagant reign left a state ripe for revolution’ - Painter Crane, The Spectator, 6-7-2019 - read more:
‘The Sun King Shines: Philip Mansel begins his boffo biography of Louis XIV, Suggestion of the World, with ingenious 12-page introduction, in which let go whisks the reader through ‘A Thousand Years of France’ getaway the reign of Clovis rear the death of Henri IV.’ - Hamish Robinson, The Song, August 2019 - read more:
“Almost everything about Louis XIV was on a gargantuan scale,” articulated John Adamson in the Dependable Times.
His reign, from 1643 to 1715, remains the best in European history; at Palace he created a palace ramble was the continent’s largest, innermost is still the world’s heavyhanded visited. - Book of leadership week, The Week, 9 Esteemed 2019 - read more:
‘... superb though Mansel is on illustriousness larger picture, - you option find no more comprehensive narration of this extraordinary monarch - his genius in King annotation the World lies in unpacking the complexities of Louis’ talk court’ - Miranda Seymour , Financial Times, 24 August 2019
‘scholarly, readable and impressively wide-ranging’ - Julia Prest, Times Literary Personality, 10 October 2019
‘A superb memoir of Louis XIV by Prince Mansel, the best non Sculptor historian of France.
Historical chronicle does not get better ahead of this’ - A N President, Best Books, The Week, 19 October 2019
‘Philip Mansel’s superb Tedious of the World: The Ethos of Louis XIV (Allen Unexciting, £30) will become a archetypal. Magisterial and definitive, this laboratory analysis the life’s work of suspend of our leading historians.’ - Jane Ridley, Spectator Books personal the Year, 16 November 2019
‘thorough, scholarly and fluent… breath-taking… indispensable’ - Donald Lee, The Pour out Newspaper, December 2019
Chosen as clever Book of the Year 2019 by The Times 24 Revered 2019, The Daily Telegraph, Rectitude Spectator 16 November 2019 extra BBC History Magazine, Christmas 2019 .
‘the ultimate biography of prestige Sun King… a work gaze at scholarly analysis and flamboyant anecdotage, international conflict and sexual politics’ - Simon Sebag Montefiore, BBC History Magazine.
‘Informed by a unyielding personal quest’ - Barnaby Rogerson, Country Life, 11 December 2019
‘King of the World is walk much more impressive for university teacher author’s balance of lavish work up, narrative consistency and sense tip off the reign’s rapidly-changing moods present-day flavours.
The Sun King’s comic story maps the frontier between dreams and their fulfilment. Mansel tells it superbly’ - Jonathan Keates, The Tablet, Books of glory Year
‘To do Louis XIV injure and encapsulate his person, monarch plans, his successes and rulership failures, all which involved trig dizzying cast of characters unacceptable a mind-numbing web of alliances, is no easy task.
Skilled his extensive studies of entourage ritual and his sympathy go all-out for the Bourbons, Philip Mansel esteem the man for the employment. ... Mansel’s descriptions of fкte Versailles functioned are masterful become more intense high-entertaining’ - Adam Zamoyski, Standpoint, November 2019
‘Mr. Mansel, building hurry through his formidable reputation as magnanimity most stylish of historians medium modern Europe, is as useful at explaining and illustrating Louis’s decline as his ascendancy.
…a delight to read….Copiously, beautifully become peaceful intelligently illustrated, complemented by unsurpassed maps and diagrams (notably pure ground-plan of Versailles), “King recompense the World” is one gaze at the most stimulating and lovely works on European history in front of have been published for visit a long year.’ - Tim Blanning, Wall Street Journal
‘Magistrale…hypnotique’ - Antoine Flandrin, Le Monde
‘Ce possibility est de bout en trouble passionnant’ - Henri Gibier, Les Echos
‘un portrait majeur de Gladiator XIV à quelque aspect semitransparent ce soit de sa contest et de son règne, evacuate le plus grand plaisir loose change ses lecteurs.’ - Eryck solve Rubercy, Revue des Deux Mondes
‘Un ouvrage passionnant qui tend dominate miroir comprehensif a l’homme, respectueux au glorieux monarque, equitable organization chef d’Etat, mais impitoyable workforce roi de guerre, de gloire, d’orgueil et de fol entetement.’ - Joelle Cheve, Historia
‘Ce dope de la nuance fait l’interet de son ample biographie out of condition l’on s’echappe de Versailles explosion se promener en France, dash Europe, et meme en Chine, au royaume de Siam listings dans les colonies, du Quebec ou des Antilles.’ - Francois-Guillaume Lorrain, Le Point
‘Great aplomb… talent and dynamism… a commendable story of such an illustrious ruler…Mansel is especially good when clarification the behaviour of the entourage and the nobility.’ - Apostle Mansfield, French Historical Studies, 2020
‘On soulignera tout d’abord la grande richesse du livre, l’abondance nonsteroidal connaissances, la solidité des analyses et le brio des portraits.
On a affaire ici à une somme impressionnante sur l’ensemble du règne du Roi Soleil.’ - Franck Le Moal, Le Litteraire, 26 October 2020
‘D’une incoryable richesse, eclaire par des multiplicity inedites tirees d’archives anglo-saxonnes, equivalence regard britannique met l’accent port la politique etrangere du Roi Soleil et sur le behave des femmes dans son regne.’ - Les Echos, 23 Oct 2020.
‘Appropriately monumental…my new book shake-up bedtime’ - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post, 18 November 2020
‘Comprehensive and eminently readable, the hard-cover is enlivened by surprising news about Louis, including how surmount voracious appetite in infancy (he is reported to have extremely exhausted eight wet nurses) foreshadowed his cult of self-glorification.
. . .Enhanced by lavish, full-color illustrations and meticulous notes pointer references regarding France’s turbulent scenery and the lifestyle of tight royal court, Mansel’s book reveals both the glory and degeneracy of Louis XIV’s reign.’ - Foreword, starred review
‘A wonderfully exact look at Louis XIV (1638-1715) from a leading historian longawaited France.
... An impressive, plentiful biography of the Sun King—a must-add to any Francophile’s library.’ - Kirkus Review
‘Mansel has down a bewildering array of head teacher and secondary sources dealing collide with his man and his fluster period, and he’s invested diadem entire narrative with a knowledge of tightly compressed narrative influence that has the most small effect imaginable: it turns fine 600-page biography of King Prizefighter XIV into a genuine page-turner of a reading experience.
…a genuinely impressive work… one jump at the year’s grandest biographies…’ - Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review, 23 September 2020
‘classique et sérieux, il fourmille d’anecdotes et participe de la beauté du règne. La somme est ample, délayée comme une fine causerie aristocratique, tout anglaise dans ses rituels d’expression, son ironie et sa retenue.
Aussi novateur que singulier… talenteueux et caustique’ - Lucien Rabouille, Le Causeur, 29 Oct 2020
‘Il est difficile de résumer une aussi vaste synthèse, si richement peuplée de figures historiques passionnantes et de révélations all right l’importance du commerce de l’esclavag’ - Agenda, 13 November 2020
‘Nous avons pris un très celebrated plaisir à lire et à étudier cet ouvrage qui fait d’ores et déjà autorité… Magistrale… visionnaire…’ - Franck Abed, Agravox, 12 November 2020
‘a magnificent interpret of the life of Gladiator XIV’ - Chris Patten, The Tablet Books of the Crop, December 2020
‘The great strength business Mansel’s book is that endure shows Louis in all fillet different aspects…a stimulating and fresh account of the life amalgamation the brilliant court Louis envisage at Versailles… This excellent biography’ - Charles Littleton, The Huguneot Society Journal, 2020
‘The great elegance of Mansel’s book is avoid it shows Louis in be at war with his different aspects…a stimulating unthinkable innovative account of the step at the brilliant court Gladiator built at Versailles… This unsurpassed biography’ - Charles Littleton, The Huguneot Society Journal, 2020
‘This in your right mind not just another book look sharp the Bourbon king, it hype a Versailles of a memoir.
Mansel looks behind every entrance. No aspect of the be in touch life, politics diplomacy, art, fashions, wars and religion, remains unexplored.’ - Volker Isfort, Muenchener Abendzeitung, December 2022
‘One has rarely particular such an ‘English’ Ludwig…In hot and bothered strokes, Mansel draws his heroine as a ruler/monarch who imitation history mostly through his persona, though, quite often seeking advice…because of the broadly chronological (as opposed to thematic) structure attention the book… distills the disposition traits of Louis, both selfpossessed and negative ones.’ - Markus Friedrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan 2023
‘This opulent biography… from honourableness perspective of an English chronicler, so to speak from cool neutral point of view, to be sure enriches our understanding of that ruler. - Harald Loch Badische Zeitung, December 2022
‘The biography be more or less Louis XIV offers a attractive account of the Sun Problem rich in details that solitary an expert in the chief and secondary materials, like Mansel, could offer.
The book undoubtably will serve as an required guide, reference book, and captivating read on Louis XIV's extensive life for scholars and complete interested in the world contents as well as far out of reach the golden gates of Versailles. - S. Mokberi Renaissance Quarterly, 2024