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Louis XIV to French Revolution - suggestions?
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Janine Montupet's The Lacemaker is just superb in either French or English.
And I assume that the three volume biography of Beaumarchais in French was better than the reduced translation into one volume in English, can't think of the author--it came out in English last year, I think.
But Beaumarchais had his finger literally in every pie. And because of that, one got to see really how corrupt was the judicial system of the ancien regime, how the kings really exerted their influence or didn't--he was music tutor to the King's children, how the ancien regime really thought about sex--his letters are stunningly explicit, the media wars, everything about the latter part of the 18th century in Paris, in fact.
And I assume that the three volume biography of Beaumarchais in French was better than the reduced translation into one volume in English, can't think of the author--it came out in English last year, I think.
But Beaumarchais had his finger literally in every pie. And because of that, one got to see really how corrupt was the judicial system of the ancien regime, how the kings really exerted their influence or didn't--he was music tutor to the King's children, how the ancien regime really thought about sex--his letters are stunningly explicit, the media wars, everything about the latter part of the 18th century in Paris, in fact.