Lecture given by Dr. Philip Mansel & organized by WIC - starts at 11:00 but you can dial into the zoom already at 10:45
Non-member fee is 8 Euros
Please register directly with WIC by the 12th of April at: anikbecher@hotmail.com.
Philip Mansel is a historian of courts and cities, and of France and the Ottoman Empire. He was
born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton College, where he was a King’s Scholar, and at
Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and Modern Languages. Following four
years’ research into the French court in 1814-1830, he was awarded his doctorate at University
College, London in 1978.
His first book, Louis XVIII, was published in 1981 and this - together with subsequent works such
as The Court of France 1789-1830 (1989), Paris Between Empires 1814-1852 (2001) -
established him as a specialist on the later French monarchy. Seven of his books have been
translated into French.
Altogether Philip Mansel has published fourteen books of history and biography, mainly relating
either to France or the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East: Sultans in Splendour was
published in 1988, Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire 1453-1924 in 1995 and Levant:
Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean in 2010. His most recent book is King of the
World: The Life of Louis XIV, published by Penguin in July 2019.
