by Claude Duneton · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020089272
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«Petit Louis, dit XIV : L'enfance du Roi-Soleil» is the historical novel by Claude Duneton, published by Seuil in paperback (597 pages, in French).
Historical novel that novelistically develops the memoirs of La Porte, first valet of Louis XIV, and the diary of Héroard, physician to Louis XIII. It recreates 17th-century France, between the reign of Louis XIII and the childhood of the Sun King, with period dialogues based on Duneton's research on the history of language.
Work by Claude Duneton (1935-2012), published by Éditions du Seuil in 1985. The cover lists it as 'roman'; in catalogs it is classified as history, biography and memoirs.
Suitable for readers of historical fiction interested in the 17th-century French court and the figure of Louis XIV.
