Spectator Books
Philip Mansel: King of the World
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:44:09
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Synopsis
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the historian Philip Mansel. We talk about his new biography King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV. He tells me what really drove the great megalomaniac, whether he was a feminist avant la lettre, how his depredations in the Rhineland anticipated Putin’s in Ukraine – and why, if he hadn’t revoked the Edict of Nantes, the first man on the moon might have been speaking French.