Louis XIV and the Greatness of France by Maurice Ashley

Louis XIV and the Greatness of France

by Maurice Ashley

Men and Their Times

General Editor A.L. Rowse

The English Universities Press Ltd., 1967, [Eleventh Impression], illustrated endpapers (maps), hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, chipping and creasing  (See photographs)

“This book is a study of the reign of Louis XIV, showing the political leadership that France enjoyed in Europe during his reign.  It also shows the unity that this King gave to the French people after generations of civil wars.  Those Englishmen, Frenchmen and Americans who today stroll again in peace through the gardens of Versailles – that city from which General Eisenhower directed the final assault upon Hitler’s Germany – may share too in the consciousness of the continuing glory of France which Louis XIV once represented.”