The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms.
The discovery in the French archives of a four-line Song from 1661 launched Hammond\'s research into the lives of the two men refere.
In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a sonic approach to this remarkable age, opening our ears to the myriad ways in which Sound revealed the complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, and sexuality in seventeenth-century Paris.
The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms