Ten Years Later

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty." A decade has passed since the turbulent events of the Fronde, and the year is 1660. The young Louis XIV is no longer a child-king; he is beginning to assert his absolute power, transforming France into the cultural center of the world. But behind the gold-leafed walls of the Louvre and the hunting lodges of Fontainebleau, a new age of conspira...