The history of Lewis XI. King of France : in which is comprehended a general view of the affairs of Europe during the XVth century, and a clear account of the true causes of those disputes which have occasioned most of the long and bloody wars that have happened since : wherein also are contained many curious particulars relating to our own history, omitted or partially related by our authors, in reference to the contest between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the revolt of the Switzers, the rise of the family of Medicis, and the marriage of the heiress of Burgundy into the House of Austria, which occasioned originally that quarrel which is the chief ground of the present war : interspersed throughout with the most lively and impartial characters of the persons mentioned therein, disclosing the secret springs of many important events, and affording a most admirable picture of the condition of a great kingdom, when governed by a designing prince, whose policy is no other than a compleat system of corruption / by M. Duclos ... ; faithfully translated from the French original, which was suppressed at Paris : in two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duclos, Charles Pinot-, 1704-1772.

Standardized Title:

Histoire de Louis XI. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Louis XI, King of France, 1423-1483.

Louis.

France--History--Louis XI, 1461-1483.

France.

History.

France--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copies)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 20 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by George Faulkner ..., 1746.

Notes:

Includes index.

Leaf of advertisements inserted after t.p. of vol. 1.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: title leaf of v. 1 mutilated; several leaves at end of v. 1, containing part of the index, wanting; advertisements wanting; v. 2 wanting.

Forrest copy one imperfect: index misbound at end of vol. 2.

Cited in:

ESTC N017765

OCLC:

21918655