We were delighted to welcome Philip Mansel for an online conference on Louis XIV, Scotland and Europe.
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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 of the period 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 an authority on the later French monarchy. Six of his books have been translated into French.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) and the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the president of the Conseil Scientifique of the Centre de Recherche du Chateau de Versailles. In 2010 Philip Mansel was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, in 2012 received the annual London Library Life in Literature Award, and in 2016 was given the Order of the Crown by the Belgian Government.
For more information: www.philipmansel.com