LOVE AND LOUIS XIV [Import] [Hardcover]

Antonia Fraser (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; First Edition edition (2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0297829971
• ISBN-13: 978-0297829973
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,837,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sloppiness in Text of Antonia Fraser's Loves of Louis XIV, December 12, 2010

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Mr. Robert A. Eder - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Kindle Edition)

I find Antonia Fraser's look at the mistresses and wives of Louis XIV most fascinating and interesting. However I am put off by the sloppiness of proof-reading in the Kindle edition. The most egregious example is the confusion in "Duc" and "due." Someone irresponsibly seems to have used the spell check to mindlessly replace all "due to" to "Duc to." There must be well over 50 times that this happens in the text. Why can't Antonia Fraser or her literary agent provide a corrected version to Amazon for sale?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, Layered Insight Into Louis XIV, February 8, 2011

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SJP (NE Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Kindle Edition)

Even though this account is a bit biased towards the monarch, Frasier has done a fantastic job at layering interesting details about Louis XIV. This is a must read for anyone interseted in pre-revolutionary France.