The Man Who Outshone The Sun King: Ambition, Triumph and Treachery in the Reign of Louis XIV by Charles Drazin, Charles Drazin
The Man Who Outshone The Sun King: Ambition, Triumph and Treachery in the Reign of Louis XIV
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Charles Drazin, Charles Drazin
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The Man Who Outshone The Sun King: Ambition, Triumph and Treachery in the Reign of Louis XIV

Charles Drazin, Charles Drazin

368 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative tense slow-paced
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*In 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a heavily-armoured carriage as it rumbled slowly southwards from Paris, carrying his great friend Nicolas Foucquet to internal exile and life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol. There he would b...

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