The Age of Louis XIV, The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant

$24.55

The biography of a period (1648-1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. “Some centuries hence,” Frederick the Great correctly predicted to Voltaire, “they will translate the good authors of the time of Louis XIV as we translate those of the age of Pericles and Augustus.” Those authors are lovingly treated here: Pascal, Racine and Boileau, Mme. de Sevigne and Mme. de La Fayette, and above all the philosopher-dramatist Moliere, who so memorable exposed the vices and hypocrisies of the age.

New book but Dust Jacket has normal shelf wear. 

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