A Lust For Virtue

Louis Xiv'S Attack On Sin In Seventeenth-Century France

by Philip F. Riley
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Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue.

A Lust For Virtue

Louis Xiv'S Attack On Sin In Seventeenth-Century France

by Philip F. Riley

Property Description
ISBN: 9780313317088
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Release Date: June of 2001
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Format: Book
Collection: Contributions To The Study Of World History
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Biographies
EAN: 9780313317088