The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV - Nicolas Fouquet by Charles Drazin, Charles Drazin

The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV - Nicolas Fouquet

Charles Drazin, Charles Drazin

352 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative tense slow-paced
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Late in 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man in the Iron Mask. From a glorious zenith as Louis XIV's first minister and Card...

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