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City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715

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City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715 - Trout, Andrew, MD
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Andrew Trout's new book on Paris during the period preceding the end Louis XIV's reign is a fascinating social history of the city anchored by the lives of two of its most famous citizens: Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV. Beginning with the emergence of Richelieu as a political force and concluding with the end of Louis XIV's reign, Trout describes the city as it looked during the seventeenth century and answers a myriad of interesting questions: Did the houses have numbers? Were residential buildings flush with the street ...

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City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715 1996, Palgrave MacMillan, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312129330

1996 edition

Hardcover