by François-Guillaume Lorrain · XO Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782374481883
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«Louis XIV, l'enfant roi» is the historical novel by François-Guillaume Lorrain, published by XO Editions in paperback (322 pages, in French).
It narrates the childhood of Louis XIV: a boy who becomes king at age five and grows up under a demanding education, with Mazarin as mentor in court intrigues and Anne of Austria as a stern mother. The upheavals of the Fronde and the humiliations he suffers mark his apprenticeship in power and forge the monarch who would become the Sun King.
The novel is set in 17th-century France; the original edition was published on January 16, 2020.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the French court and absolute monarchy.
