Louis XIV #1 - Dr. Philip Mansel - Interview

Dr. Philip Mansel has written 13 books on France and the Ottoman Empire, including:
Constantinople: City of the World’s desire (1995)
Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010).
Aleppo ; the Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City (rev.ed. I B Tauris 2018)

In this interview Dr. Mansel discuss his fascinating work:
King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV (Penguin 2019)

Noted historian Tim Blanning in the Wall street Journal called King of the World
'one of the most stimulating and enjoyable works on European history to have been published for many a long year'.