Philip ManselPhilip Mansel is a historian and writer, the author of more than a dozen books covering courts, cities, France and the Ottoman Empire How the English fell in love with Versailles, Louis XIV's 'most magnificent and Royal palace' From 1661 until his death in 1715, Louis XIV invested huge sums of money transforming the Palace of Versailles in France into a creation that commanded international admiration. Philip Mansel considers the response of English visitors to this astonishing creation.
