Claire Goldstein. Vaux and Versailles. The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France.(Book review)

Seventeenth-Century News | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Claire Goldstein. Vaux and Versailles. The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. XII + 270 pp. + 24 illus. $55.00. Review by DENIS D. GRELE, UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS.

At the time Louis XIV took power the expansionist wars, the growth of capitalism and the development of commercial ventures were fundamentally transforming France. It therefore became imperative for the sovereign to find new ways of uniting and governing a heterogeneous nation. In this light, Vaux and Versailles can be seen as ...

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