It was good to be 'Sun King': With France in good stead, Louis XIV could focuson romance

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 29, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

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Love and Louis XIV

The Women in the Life of the Sun King

By Antonia Fraser

Nan A. Talese, 544 pages, $35

Ah, to have been Louis XIV, King of France, passionately doted on by your mother, slavishly adored by your wife, seen as godlike by your many paramours and long-term mistresses, a man who never lacked female companionship, even when he shed his good looks and became balding and portly in middle age. What guy wouldn't enjoy being Louis?

Louis had it good, however, not just because of his kingly authority but because he returned the devotion these many women held for him; ...

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