Versailles by Stephen Clarke

Versailles

Stephen Clarke

572 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced
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Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transfor...

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