Sun Court Bibliography

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Suggested reading about Claude des Oeillets;

Suggested reading about the Affair of the Poisons;

Suggested reading about Louise de la Vallière and the Court of the Sun King;

Louis XIV bibliography;

Louise de la Vallière bibliography;

Complete bibliography.

Note: for a bibliography of books about Josephine Bonaparte and the Napoleonic era, go to this page. For suggested reading about the Napoleonic era, go to this page and scroll down to "For further reading."

Louis XIV bibliography

  • —. De la naissance à la glorie: Louis XIV a Saint-Germain, 1638-1682. Musée des Antiquités Nationales; Saint-Germain-en-Laye; 1988. [623]
  • — . Les Fêtes à la Cour du Roi Soleil 1653-1715. [456]
  • Barine, Arvède. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle. Trans. G.P. Putnam’s sons; New York and London; 1905. [451]
  • Beaussant, Philippe. Le Roi-Soleil se lève aussi. Gallimard; 2000. [703]
  • Berger, Robert W. The Palace of the Sun; The Louvre of Louis XIV. The Pennsylvania State University Press; University Park, Pennsylvania; 1993. [643]
  • Bernard, Leon. The emerging city; Paris in the age of Louis XIV. Duke Univ. Press; Durham, NC; 1970. [577]
  • Bertrand, Louis. Paul Morin, trans. The Private Life of Louis XIV. Louis Carrier & Co./NY/1929. [663
  • Bluche, François. Louis XIV. Trans. by Mark Greengrass. Franklin Watts; NY; 1990. [673]
  • Bradby, G.F. The Great Days of Versailles; Studies from Court Life in the Later Years of Louis XIV. Scharles Scribner’s Sons; NY; 1906. [544]
  • Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. Yale University Press; New Haven and London; 1992. [383
  • Chantelou, Paul Fréart de. Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini’s Visit to France. Princeton Univ. Press; Princeton; 1985. [463]
  • Chéruel, A. De l’Administration de Louis XIV (1661-1672) d’après les mémoires inédits d’Olivier d’Ormesson. Joubert, Libraire de la Cour de Cassation; Paris; 1850. [696]
  • Cronin, Vincent. Louis XIV. [395] The Reprint Society ("Book Club Associates" in the SMA version); London; 1964
  • Dangeau. Journal du marquis de Dangeau. Tome premier. 1684-1686. MM. Soulié, Dussieux, de Chennevières... [et al.] ; avec les additions inédites du duc de Saint-Simon publ. par M. Feuillet de Conches; 1684. [729]
  • Dunlop, Ian. Louis XIV. Pimlico; UK; 2001. [391]
  • Erlanger, Philippe. Louis XIV. Trans. from French by Stephen Cox. Praeger Publishers; NY; 1970. [648a]
  • Fraser, Antonia. Love and Louis XIV; the Women in the Life of the Sun King. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; London; 2006. [797] Doubleday Canada; Toronto; 2006. [798]
  • Force, M. le Duc de la. Louis XIV et Sa Cour. Productions de Paris; Paris; date? [568]
  • Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen. Trans. by Anne Carter. Allen Lane the Penguin Press; London; 1969. [417]
  • Hamlyn, Paul. The Life and Times of Louis XIV. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd; Italy; 1968. [647a]
  • Hamlyn, Paul. The Sun King; Louis XIV and the New World. An exhibition organized by the Louisiana State Museum. The Louisiana Museum Foundation; New Orleans; 1984. [646a]
  • Langlois, Marcel. Louis XIV et la Cour d’après trois témoins nouveaux: Bélise, Beauvillier, Chamillart. Albin Michel; Paris; 1926. [496]
  • Lewis, W. H. Louis XIV; An Informal Portrait. Harcourt, Brace and Company; New York; 1959. [582]
  • Louis XIV. Manière de Montrer les Jardins de Versailles. Réunion des Musées Nationaux; 2001. [620]
  • Mallet-Joris, Françoise. The Uncompromising Heart; a life of Marie Mancini, Louis XIV's first love. Translated from the Frenc by Patrick O'Brian. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; NY; 1966. [792]
  • Michael, Prince of Greece. Louis XIV; The Other Side of the Sun. Trans. By Alan Sheridan. Harper & Row; New York; 1983. [500]
  • Mitford, Nancy. The Sun King. Harper & Row; New York; 1966. [392]
  • Norton, Lucy. The Sun King and His Loves. The Folio Society. London. 1982. [75]
  • Petitfils, Jean-Christian. Louis XIV, l’ordre et la glorie. Tallandier Historia; Paris; 2001. [622]
  • Petitfils, Jean-Christian. Louis XIV. Perrin; Paris?; 2002. [653]
  • Rouge, Le Petit Home. The Favourites of Louis XIV. The Gorham Press; Boston; no date given. [458]
  • Thompson, Ian. The Sun King's Garden; Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre and the Creation of the Garden of Versailles. Bloomsbury; London; 2006. [781]
  • Walton, Guy. Louis XIV’s Versailles. The Univ. of Chicago Press; Chicago; 1986. [481]
  • Wolf, John B., editor. Louis XIV; a profile. Hill and Wang; New York; 1972. [512]
  • Wolf, John B. Louis XIV. W.W. Norton & Company Inc.; New York; 1968. [402]
  • Vallot and others. Journal de la santé du roi Louis XIV. On Gallica. [460]
  • Valogne, Catherine. Louis XIV et Louise de La Vallière a Versailles. Librairie Payot Lausanne; Payot & Lausanne; 1964. [461]
  • Voltaire. The Age of Louis XIV. Trans. from the French by Martyn P. Pollack. J.Monsieur Dent & Sons Ltd./London/1926. [404]
  • Zanger, Abby E. Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV. Stanford Univ. Press; Stanford, Calif.; 1997. [425]
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