Europe is exhausted. France is struggling through famine and financial crisis. The armies of the great powers have been fighting for more than a decade, and the long reign of Louis XIV is approaching its end.

In this extended episode of Past Your Bedtime: History to Sleep To, journey through the final years of the War of the Spanish Succession, beginning with the devastating Great Frost of 1709. Follow Louis XIV and France through the bloody aftermath of Malplaquet, political upheaval in London, secret negotiations between Britain and France, and the diplomatic bargaining that produced the Peace of Utrecht.

Then return to Versailles for the final chapter of the Sun King’s extraordinary seventy-two-year reign and the beginning of a new European order under the young Louis XV.

It is a story of war, diplomacy, royal succes ...