In a fascinatingly written Romanized biography compiled by the leading modern French historian F. Blush, the life of Louis XIV, nicknamed the Great, is described in detail from the moment of his birth until his death. From the pages of the book, the reader is presented with a colorful figure of the most famous king in the Christian world of those times in all his human manifestations, a patron of literature and art, a connoisseur of beautiful women and a state reformer. Blush brilliantly described the life of the French court, masterfully depicted the passions, intrigues, victories and defeats that lived around the Sun King.