Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV by Karleen Koen

Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV

Karleen Koen

460 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction historical romance informative mysterious slow-paced

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Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles?   After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing F...

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