The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: The Rise and Fall of Nicolas Fouquet by Charles Drazin

The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: The Rise and Fall of Nicolas Fouquet

Charles Drazin

320 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark slow-paced
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The story of the rise and fall of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV’s first finance minister.Sometime late in 1664, the musketeer D’Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Fo...

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