Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Books
Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV
"The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was by all accounts, including his own, a sensitive, self-obsessed, ill-tempered man. A courtier and phenomenal chronicler of court life under Louis XIV, he pro...
Read MoreThe Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
In 1499, high in the remote and bitterly impoverished mountains of the Valais, Thomas Platter was born and quickly abandoned, left to make his way among the crags as a herder of goats and sheep. At...
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