The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Sp by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Sp

The Story of Civilization #8

Will Durant, Ariel Durant

36 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Age of Louis XIV is the biography of a period (1648-1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. "Some centuries hence," Frederick the Great correctly predicted to Voltaire, "they will translate the good authors of ...

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