Versailles : landscape of power & pleasure / Colin Jones.
Few buildings carry such a freight of historical symbolism as the Palace of Versailles. First built as a hunting lodge by Louis XIII in the early seventeenth century, then radically repurposed by his absolutist son Louis XIV, Versailles became the focus of that king's centralised power. Drawing on a...
| Uniform Title: | Landmark library (Head of Zeus (Publisher))
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Head Of Zeus,
2018.
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| Physical Description: | 216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cm. |
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Versailles : landscape of power and pleasure |
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