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Dazzled By The Sun

Philip Mansel LOUIS XIV by Francois Bluche Blackwell, f30, pp.624 A ll good biographers fall in love with their subject', believes the translator of this biography of Louis XIV.......

The Stripping Of Aunt Puss

Mark Archer BLOOD MONEY: THE STORY OF THE BARONESS DE STEMPEL SCANDAL by Kate Wharton Ebury Press, f14.99, pp. 192 A t Boot Magna it was Nannie Bloggs, Scoop readers will......