Volume VIII of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization — covering Europe from 1648 to 1715, the age of absolute monarchy, the wars of Louis XIV, and the intellectual revolution of Locke, Newton, and Leibniz.
Chronicles the height of French cultural hegemony and the intellectual revolution that accompanied it — Versailles and the Sun King as the apex of court civilization, alongside the scientific and philosophical foundations of the Enlightenment.
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