Author: NICOLE SALAT ET THIERRY SARMANT (EDS.)
Title: Politique, guerre et fortification au Grand Siècle: Lettres de Louvois à Louis XIV (1679-1691)
Description: Published by the SOCIETE DE L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE, Paris, and the SERVICE HISTORIQUE DE LA DÉFENSE, Vincennes, 2007. XIX plus 320 pages. Almost intimate correspondence showing how his close collaborator Louvois informed the Roi Soleil about what was going in the world, thus helping him to (try to) rule that world. Having prepared the campaign to conquer Mons, Louvois offered the King to read the plan to him aloud, but warned that he would need an audience of three full hours to do it; see page 250. Softcover (code B-313)

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