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Lives and Landscapes of the French Monarchy
March 17, 2007
William Beik professor emeritus, history, Emory
Christian Duvernois landscape designer

French historian William Beik of Emory University explores the lives of the monarchs, including Kings Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI, and the transformation of French culture into the pinnacle of art and refinement. Following Beik, landscape designer and lecturer Christian Duvernois discusses the gardens of Versailles and the two passionate "royal landscape designers" who spent time working on these gardens: Louis XIV and Marie-Antoinette.

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Image of Louis XIV and Absolutism: A Brief Study with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Author: William Beik
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2000)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages
Image of Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Author: William Beik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1989)
Binding: Paperback, 396 pages
Image of A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France
Author: William Beik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 420 pages
Image of Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution (Volume 0)
Author: William Beik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 300 pages
Image of Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles
Author: Christian Duvernois
Publisher: Rizzoli (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages

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