xxii, 234 pp. Blue cloth, silver titles. Fold-out genealogical table follows text. Translated into English from the original French by Desmond Flower, with etchings by Goor, and historical note on the Palace of Versailles by Charles Mauricheau-Beaupre. An "eye-witness account of Versailles during the last twenty years of the Sun King's reign... The present volume is drawn entirely from this first-hand reporting, in the pages of which the loves, the hates, the huge ambitions, and the petty quarrels of the royal circle come to life with startling clarity."
