About eight miles from Paris is the town of Versailles, which was but a poor little village when a great king took a fancy to it and built there a palace. His son was passionately fond of state and grandeur, and he resolved to add to the palace, room after room and gallery after gallery, until he had made it the most superb house in all the world. It is said the cost was so frightful that he never let anyone know what the sum total amounted to, but threw the accounts into the fire. This was Louis XIV., called by Frenchmen "Le grand Monarque." He reigned seventy-two years, having been a mere child when called to the throne.
History of the French Revolution
F. A. M. Mignet
book
A History of the French Revolution Volume I
H. Morse Stephens
book
Pictures of the First French Revolution
Alphonse De Lamartine
book
The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon
Theodore Flathe
book
Englishmen in the French Revolution
John Goldworth Alger
book
The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle
book
The Case for Nationalism : How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free
Rich Lowry
audiobook
Gateway to the French Revolution : Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution, Friedrich von Gentz's Revolutions Compared, and Joseph de Maistre's On God and Society
Edmund Burke
book
New York, New York, New York : Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Thomas Dyja
audiobook
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter
audiobook
The Shortest History of Democracy
John Keane
audiobookbook
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Jeremy D. Popkin
audiobook