Versailles A Biography of a Palace

Name: Versailles A Biography of a Palace
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ISBN: 9780312603465

ISBN-10: 0312603460

ISBN-13: 9780312603465

Edition: N/A

Authors: Tony Spawforth

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Called "fast-paced" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and "highly engrossing" ( Publishers Weekly ), this is the behind-the-scenes story of the world's most famous palace. The story of Versailles is one of high historical drama mixed with the high camp and glamour of the European courts, all in an iconic home for the French arts. The palace itself has been radically altered since 1789. Versailles sets out to rediscover what is now a vanished world: a great center of power and, for thousands, a home both grand and squalid. Using the latest historical research, Spawforth offers the first full account of Versailles in English in over thirty years. He probes the conventional picture of this "perpetual house…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 3/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface



Builders of the Labyrinth



"Rome in one palace"



A Gilded Cage?



"How right to insist on ceremony..."



Follow the King!



"All the pleasures"



Comforts, or Lack of Them



Behind Closed Doors



A Garden with Flowers



"The royal zoo"



After the Deluge


Notes


Sources


Index