# The Sun King

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- Book: [The Sun King](https://www.bookquiver.com/nancy-mitford/the-sun-king) ([The Sun King.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nancy-mitford/the-sun-king.md))
- Authors: [Nancy Mitford](https://www.bookquiver.com/nancy-mitford)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-491-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2012-05-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A “devastatingly witty” biography of Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles—at once a historical record of late 17th- and early 18th-century France and a gossip-filled narrative of lovers...