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The Man Who Outshone The Sun King Charles Drazin

The Man Who Outshone The Sun King von Charles Drazin

The Man Who Outshone The Sun King Charles Drazin

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Zusammenfassung

*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol.

The Man Who Outshone The Sun King Zusammenfassung

The Man Who Outshone The Sun King: Ambition, Triumph and Treachery in the Reign of Louis XIV Charles Drazin

*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol. There he would be incarcerated in a cell next door to the Man with the Iron Mask...

*From a glittering zenith as the King's first minister, builder of the breathtaking chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, collector of books, patron of the arts and lover of beautiful women, Foucquet had fallen like Icarus. Charged with embezzlement, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

*Charles Drazin's riveting account brings to life the rich, hazardous and machiavellian world in which Foucquet lived. His charm, cunning and charisma enchanted and beguiled those around him, but in them lay the seeds of his destruction.

The Man Who Outshone The Sun King Bewertungen

A gripping account of one of the most spectacular - and tragic - careers in French history * Munro Price *
This is the story of the seventeenth century's most audacious aesthete brought low by its most elegant tyrant - and it is as fresh, dramatic and poignant today as it was when it first engrossed Europe nearly four hundred years ago. Charles Drazin's refined, meticulous approach is perfectly suited to his protagonist. Stylish and compelling * Lisa Hilton *
Charles Drazin not only tells a great story; he has also produced a vivid and compelling account of the French court in all its treacherous complexity. A marvellous book * Adrian Tinniswood *

Über Charles Drazin

Charles Drazin was born in Hampshire in 1960. He grew up in North London and was educated at Highgate School and Oxford University, where he read Classics. He has worked for many years as a writer and editor, and also teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. His other books include In Search of the Third Man (1999), Korda: Britain's Only Movie Mogul (2002), The Man Who Outshone the Sun King (2008) and The Faber Book of French Cinema (2011).

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR003293421
9780099468288
009946828X
The Man Who Outshone The Sun King: Ambition, Triumph and Treachery in the Reign of Louis XIV Charles Drazin
Charles Drazin
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