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The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France eros eternal He is a coauthor ofMeredith Martin and Gillian Weiss This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of Frances King Louis XIV (r. 16431715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on