For Further Reading

Accessible Narratives

Castelot, André. Histoire de France. Multiple volumes. Paris: Perrin, 1970-1985.

Cronin, Vincent. Louis XIV. London: Collins, 1964.

Mitford, Nancy. The Sun King. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966.

Recent Syntheses

Burke, Peter, and Laura Lunger Knoppers, eds. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Jones, Colin, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, eds. The Cambridge History of France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ongoing series.

Potter, David, ed. France in the Later Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.