by Paul Morand · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070323142
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«Fouquet ou le soleil offusqué» is the biography of Nicolas Fouquet written by Paul Morand, published by Folio in paperback (192 pages, in French).
The work reconstructs the career of Nicolas Fouquet, Superintendent of Finance of France between 1653 and 1661, and his fall from grace before Louis XIV and Colbert. Morand portrays a brilliant and confident character, attached to the spirit of the Fronde, who failed to gauge his adversaries and ended up stripped of his power and his splendour.
The work, originally published in 1961, appears in the Folio Histoire collection, of which it is number 7.
For readers interested in the history of France, the reign of Louis XIV and biographies of seventeenth-century political figures.
Paul Morand was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. He was much admired by the upper echelons of society and the artistic avant-garde who made him a cult favorite. He has been categorized as an early Modernist and Imagist.
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