TY - BOOK AU - Durant,Will AU - Durant,Ariel TI - The age of Louis XIV: a history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715 T2 - The story of civilization SN - 0671012150 AV - CB53 .D85 v.8 U1 - 940.22 PY - 1963/// CY - New York PB - Simon and Schuster KW - Louis KW - Europe KW - History KW - 1648-1789 KW - Civilization KW - 18th century KW - 17th century KW - Geschichte KW - 1648-1715 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-755) and index; The French zenith : 1643-1715. The sun rises : 1643-84 ; The crucible of faith : 1643-1715 ; The King and the arts : 1643-1715 ; Moliere : 1622-73 ; The classic zenith in French literature ; Tragedy in the Netherlands : 1649-1715 -- England : 1649-1714. Cromwell : 1649-60 ; Milton : 1608-74 ; The Restoration : 1660-85 ; The Glorious Revolution : 1685-1714 ; From Dryden to Swift : 1660-1714 -- The periphery : 1648-1715. The struggle for the Baltic : 1648-1721 ; Peter the Great : 1698-1725 ; The changing empire : 1648-1715 ; The fallow south : 1648-1715 ; The Jewish enclaves : 1564-1715 -- The intellectual adventure : 1648-1715. From superstition to scholarship : 1648-1715 ; The scientific quest : 1648-1715 ; Isaac Newton : 1642-1727 ; English philosophy : 1648-1715 ; Faith and reason in France : 1648-1715 ; Spinoza : 1632-77 ; Leibniz : 1646-1716 -- France against Europe : 1683-1715. The sun sets N2 - "A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton and Spinoza: 1648-1715." ER -