re: #122 Obdicut

I recommend Neil Stephenson’s System of The World trilogy for an imaginative but fairly accurate look at Versailles under Louis XIV.

His whole Baroque Cycle touches on Versailles off and on. “Quicksilver” “The Confusion” and “System of the World.” All three books are great fictional history where you will learn more about the time period of around 1615 to 1725 than you probably ever could in a text book or school.