{"product_id":"history-of-louis-xiv-john-s-c-abbott-9781503268494","title":"History of Louis XIV","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of Louis XIV-the \"Sun King\" of France, is a gripping tale of royal grandeur, despotism, corruption, and moral degeneracy, which, in its very extravagance, laid the seed for the destruction of the French royal house and the infamous revolution of 1789.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring Louis XIV's lengthy reign he engaged in what seemed to be a never-ending series of foreign wars, all the while furiously waging interreligious strife at home, as he ruthlessly suppressed Protestant dissent and political conspiracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis reign saw wars with the Dutch, the Austrians, and the War of the Spanish Succession, a conflict which ultimately spread to North America and involved almost every power on the European continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if these wars were not enough of a drain on the economy, Louis XIV's lavish court lifestyle also exhausted the treasury, and all of France suffered grievously as he and his nobles lived debauched lives with no thought of tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis XIV's successors would ultimately pay the price for his seventy-two-year despotic and careless reign, and it is, as the author notes, regrettable that those who plunged France into the misery in which it found itself, died peacefully in their beds, leaving others to be blamed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The thoughtful reader will perceive that in this long and wicked reign Louis XIV was sowing the wind from which his descendants reaped the whirlwind. It was the despotism of Louis XIV and of Louis XV which ushered in that most sublime of all earthly dramas, the French Revolution.\"-from the Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003eChapter I: Birth and Childhood\u003cbr\u003eChapter II: The Boy-King\u003cbr\u003eChapter III: Matrimonial Projects\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV: The Marriage of the King\u003cbr\u003eChapter V: Festivities of the Court\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI: Death in the Palace\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII: The War in Holland\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII: Madame de Maintenon\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX: The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes\u003cbr\u003eChapter X: The Secret Marriage\u003cbr\u003eChapter XI: Intrigues and Wars\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII: The Last Days of Louis XIV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John S. C. Abbott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503268497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503268494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"John S. C. Abbott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217431998719,"sku":"9781503268494","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7450fcda-4c1e-4518-bcee-dff901d1e6b3.jpg?v=1771997175","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-of-louis-xiv-john-s-c-abbott-9781503268494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}