This book has it all ... But the mistakes made by the author when he speaks of currencies (one of the big issues of the reign yet) are unforgivable. It confuses parisis Books and Books tournaments converts without any rigor, and mixing the currency of account and the metal species so that its calculations are thereby totally distorted. This facet of the work that has yet -to tort- earned its reputation as the King "counterfeiter King" has been neglected or even sloppy. Georges Minois has clearly not read a line of masterful "Monetary History of Medieval West" of Étienne Fournial.
Another drawback, which greatly lowers the quality of this book is the huge number of mistakes othographes, shells and substantive errors that dot this book (one example among others: "The bishop Guichard handed released in 1313 [...] dies in his native Champagne in 1307 "(sic!)); unforgivable mistakes in a book whose language is meant to clear and precise and widely scattered with excerpts (not translated) into French of the thirteenth century.
Finally, Georges Minois would do well, I think, to read as soon as the copy and make necessary fixes do ... if only out of respect for its readers who bought the Kindle version of the book.
