Dr. Philip Mansel (Author)

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire. Using unpublished archives and drawings,  Dr Philip Mansel shows that the traditional alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire became a corner-stone of French foreign policy under Louis XIV. In 1688 Louis XIV sent French armies across the Rhine in order to reduce…