Louis XIV: La sante de Louis XIV. Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Louis XIV

La sante de Louis XIV. Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil. Stanis Perez. Paris: Ed. Champ Vallon, 2007. 410 pp. Euro26.

The catalogue of Louis XIV's illnesses is impressive: small pox at 9, blennorrhea at 17, typhoid fever at 22, measles at 24, anal fistula at 47, paludism at 48; then, from 50 on: gout, rheumatisms, renal colics, without mentioning migraines, indigestions and chronic skin disease. His doctors kept an impeccable journal of them, a practice which moved Sainte-Beuve: O the pity to ...

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