Friday, March 28, 2008
Excellent videos on Versailles
The website for Versailles now offers excellent short videos on-line — called podcasts — in both English and French.
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This blog — "Baroque Explorations" — is about my research into 17th century life, and the era of the Court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in particular. For my blog on writing, see Notes on the Writing Life.
To see my latest newsletter, click here.
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