King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel review

King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV

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Winner of the 2023 Leo Gershoy Award 2023 Winner of The David H. Pinkney Prize Honorable Mention for The Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize 2023 Winner of the 2022 Kenshur Prize Shortlisted for Apollo Magazine's 2022 Book of the Year This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV.

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