Mitford lays bare the complex and deadly intrigues in the stateroom and the no less high-stakes power struggles in the bedroom.
With characteristic élan, Nancy Mitford reconstructs the daily life of king and courtiers during France’s golden age, offering vivid sketches of the architects, artists, and gardeners responsible for the creation of the most magnificent palace Europe had yet seen. The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. A “devastatingly witty” biography of Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles-at once a historical record of late 17th- and early 18th-century France and a gossip-filled narrative of lovers and rivals, artists and warriors ( The New York Times)
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