The following are the primary books I consulted in writing Mistress of the Sun. (For a list of recommended reading on the era of the Court of the Sun King, click here. For a full Sun Court bibliography, click here.)
— De la naissance à la glorie: Louis XIV a Saint-Germain, 1638-1682. Musée des Antiquités Nationales; Saint-Germain-en-Laye; 1988.
— Les Fêtes à la Cour du Roi Soleil 1653-1715.
Barine, Arvède. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle. Trans. G.P. Putnam’s sons; New York and London; 1905.
Beaussant, Philippe. Le Roi-Soleil se lève aussi. Gallimard; 2000.
Berger, Robert W. The Palace of the Sun; The Louvre of Louis XIV. The Pennsylvania State University Press; University Park, Pennsylvania; 1993.
Bernard, Leon. The emerging city; Paris in the age of Louis XIV. Duke Univ. Press; Durham, NC; 1970.
Bertrand, Louis. Paul Morin, trans. The Private Life of Louis XIV. Louis Carrier & Co./NY/1929.
Bluche, François. Louis XIV. Trans. by Mark Greengrass. Franklin Watts; NY; 1990.
Bradby, G.F. The Great Days of Versailles; Studies from Court Life in the Later Years of Louis XIV. Scharles Scribner’s Sons; NY; 1906.
Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. Yale University Press; New Haven and London; 1992.
Chantelou, Paul Fréart de. Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini’s Visit to France. Princeton Univ. Press; Princeton; 1985.
Chéruel, A. De l’Administration de Louis XIV (1661-1672) d’après les mémoires inédits d’Olivier d’Ormesson. Joubert, Libraire de la Cour de Cassation; Paris; 1850.
Cronin, Vincent. Louis XIV. [395] The Reprint Society (“Book Club Associates” in the SMA version); London; 1964.
Dangeau. Journal du marquis de Dangeau. Tome premier. 1684-1686. MM. Soulié, Dussieux, de Chennevières… [et al.] ; avec les additions inédites du duc de Saint-Simon publ. par M. Feuillet de Conches; 1684.
Dunlop, Ian. Louis XIV. Pimlico; UK; 2001.
Erlanger, Philippe. Louis XIV. Trans. from French by Stephen Cox. Praeger Publishers; NY; 1970.
Fraser, Antonia. Love and Louis XIV; the Women in the Life of the Sun King. Weidenfeld & Nicolson; London; 2006. [797] Doubleday Canada; Toronto; 2006.
Force, M. le Duc de la. Louis XIV et Sa Cour. Productions de Paris; Paris; date?
Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen. Trans. by Anne Carter. Allen Lane the Penguin Press; London; 1969.
Hamlyn, Paul. The Life and Times of Louis XIV. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd; Italy; 1968.
Hamlyn, Paul. The Sun King; Louis XIV and the New World. An exhibition organized by the Louisiana State Museum. The Louisiana Museum Foundation; New Orleans; 1984.
Langlois, Marcel. Louis XIV et la Cour d’après trois témoins nouveaux: Bélise, Beauvillier, Chamillart. Albin Michel; Paris; 1926.
Lewis, W. H. Louis XIV; An Informal Portrait. Harcourt, Brace and Company; New York; 1959.
Louis XIV. Manière de Montrer les Jardins de Versailles. Réunion des Musées Nationaux; 2001.
Mallet-Joris, Françoise. The Uncompromising Heart; a life of Marie Mancini, Louis XIV’s first love. Translated from the Frenc by Patrick O’Brian. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; NY; 1966.
Michael, Prince of Greece. Louis XIV; The Other Side of the Sun. Trans. By Alan Sheridan. Harper & Row; New York; 1983.
Mitford, Nancy. The Sun King. Harper & Row; New York; 1966.
Norton, Lucy. The Sun King and His Loves. The Folio Society. London. 1982.
Petitfils, Jean-Christian. Louis XIV, l’ordre et la glorie. Tallandier Historia; Paris; 2001.
Petitfils, Jean-Christian. Louis XIV. Perrin; Paris?; 2002.
Rouge, Le Petit Home. The Favourites of Louis XIV. The Gorham Press; Boston; no date given.
Thompson, Ian. The Sun King’s Garden; Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre and the Creation of the Garden of Versailles. Bloomsbury; London; 2006.
Walton, Guy. Louis XIV’s Versailles. The Univ. of Chicago Press; Chicago; 1986.
Wolf, John B., editor. Louis XIV; a profile. Hill and Wang; New York; 1972.
Wolf, John B. Louis XIV. W.W. Norton & Company Inc.; New York; 1968.
Vallot and others. Journal de la santé du roi Louis XIV. On Gallica.
Valogne, Catherine. Louis XIV et Louise de La Vallière a Versailles. Librairie Payot Lausanne; Payot & Lausanne; 1964.
Voltaire. The Age of Louis XIV. Trans. from the French by Martyn P. Pollack. J.Monsieur Dent & Sons Ltd./London/1926.
Zanger, Abby E. Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV. Stanford Univ. Press; Stanford, Calif.; 1997.
