On June 12, 1990, Shorey's informed her they finally had located the book. Roberts, ``The Grandeur and Misery of Man,'' which was published in 1955 by Oxford University Press. Shorey's apparently never gives up.''Īt Shorey's Bookstore on May 21, 1971, Turner ordered an out-of-print book by David E. ``I was not just pleased to have the book found, but stunned by the fact that it took nineteen years to find it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.``How is this for doggedness?'' an amazed North Seattle woman, Alma Turner, recently wrote The Times. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute control. During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. Nancy Mitford describes the daily life of this splendid court in sumptuous detail, bringing the distant past to vibrant life. The Sun King's universe centred at Versailles, a glittering palace from whence Louis conducted his government and complex love affairs. Louis XIV was during his reign the most powerful king in Europe. Nancy completed her last book, Frederick the Great, before she died of Hodgkin's disease on 30 June 1973. In the 1950s she began writing historical biographies - her life of Louis XIV, The Sun King, became an international bestseller.

While working in London during the Blitz, Nancy met and fell in love with Gaston Palewski, General de Gaulle's chief of staff, and eventually moved to Paris to be near him. Nancy contributed columns to The Lady and the Sunday Times, as well as writing a series of popular novels including The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, which detailed the high-society affairs of the six Radlett sisters. The Mitford sisters came of age during the Roaring Twenties and wartime in London, and were well known for their beauty, upper-class bohemianism or political allegiances. Her sisters included Lady Diana Mosley Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire and Jessica, who immortalised the Mitford family in her autobiography Hons and Rebels. Nancy Mitford was born in London on November 28 1904, daughter of the second Baron Redesdale, and the eldest of six girls.

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