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	Podcast:		Spectator Books
	Episode:		Philip Mansel: King of the World
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:44:09
	Publish Date:		2022-06-22 10:27:30
	Description:		In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the historian Philip Mansel. We talk about his new biography King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV. He tells me what really drove the great megalomaniac, whether he was a feminist avant la lettre, how his depredations in the Rhineland anticipated Putin’s in Ukraine – and why, if he hadn’t revoked the Edict of Nantes, the first man on the moon might have been speaking French.
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