Louis XI in Political Thought, 1560-1789
by
Adrianna E. Bakos
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Louis XI, known as "The Spider King" because he wove many intricate plots, lives on in popular imagination primarily as a villain and a cruel, cunning, rather unscrupulous character. Absolutists fled to his banner whilst constitutionalists reviled him as a rapacious totalitarian murderer....