{"id":8860,"date":"2013-03-18T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:15:44","slug":"episode-6-nancy-mitfords-the-sun-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/03\/18\/episode-6-nancy-mitfords-the-sun-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 6: Nancy Mitford&#8217;s <em>The Sun King<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/03\/18\/episode-6-nancy-mitfords-the-sun-king\/the-sun-king\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-Sun-King.jpg?fit=348%2C530&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"348,530\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The-Sun-King\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-Sun-King.jpg?fit=348%2C530&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8861\" alt=\"The-Sun-King\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-Sun-King-196x300.jpg?resize=196%2C300\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-Sun-King.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/The-Sun-King.jpg?w=348&amp;ssl=1 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>This month, we are joined by Tara Olmsted of\u00a0booksexyreview.com to discuss\u00a0Nancy Mitford&#8217;s biography of Louix XIV, <em>The Sun King<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Louis XIV fell in love with Versailles and Louise de La Valli\u00e8re at the same time. Versailles was the love of his life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So begins Nancy Mitford&#8217;s 1966 biography of Louis XIV, her third of four biographies she completed during her lifetime. <em>The Sun King<\/em>\u00a0is filled with her wry observations and rare wit. Mitford herself loved Versailles, dying\u00a0there in her home in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>NYRB Classics published their edition of <em>The Sun King<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0May of 2012, and it is the book we\u2019ll be talking about in Episode\u00a06 of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>In Episode 7 we will be discussing Vivant Denon&#8217;s <em>No Tomorrow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8860-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/mookse\/Mookse006.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/mookse\/Mookse006.m4a\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/mookse\/Mookse006.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Show Notes (57:06)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intro<\/li>\n<li>Brief look at Nancy Mitford and the Mitford siblings<\/li>\n<li>General thoughts<\/li>\n<li>Mitford&#8217;s fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some Links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/books\/imprints\/classics\/the-sun-king\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYRB Classics publicity page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mookse Review of <em>The Sun King<\/em> (to come)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Episode Credits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-Host Trevor Berrett<\/li>\n<li>Co-Host Brian Berrett<\/li>\n<li>Guest Tara Olmsted of booksexyreview.com<\/li>\n<li>Introduction Music \u2014 \u201cWhere We Fall We\u2019ll Lie\u201d by Jeff Zentner, from his album <em>The Dying Days of Summer<\/em> (used with permission)<\/li>\n<li>Outro\u00a0Music \u2014 \u201cIf This Is to Be Goodbye\u201d by Jeff Zentner, from his album <em>The Dying Days of Summer<\/em> (used with permission)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, we are joined by Tara Olmsted of\u00a0booksexyreview.com to discuss\u00a0Nancy Mitford&#8217;s biography of Louix XIV, The Sun King. Louis XIV fell in love with Versailles and Louise de La Valli\u00e8re at the same time. Versailles was the love of his life. So begins Nancy Mitford&#8217;s 1966 biography of Louis XIV, her third of four &#8230; <a title=\"Episode 6: Nancy Mitford&#8217;s The Sun King\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/03\/18\/episode-6-nancy-mitfords-the-sun-king\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Episode 6: Nancy Mitford&#8217;s The Sun King\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Episode 6: Nancy Mitford's The Sun King http:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-2iU","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[395,352],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505,517],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-nancy-mitford","category-podcast","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-2iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11756,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions\/11756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}