The future Louis XIV was born in 1638 at the royal palace of his father, King Louis XIII, and his mother, Queen Anne. Born into ostentatious luxury and unlimited power, he wanted for nothing.

September 1 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of King Louis XIV, France’s longest-reigning monarch. Logging 72 years on the throne, Louis eclipsed Queen Victoria by a decade. But this ...

France at War in the Age of Enlightenment. In The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon, Christy Pichichero “aims to bring war and military thought to ...

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Chateau Louis XIV, a mansion outside of Paris named after the 17th century French king, has broken the record for the world’s most expensive home after it reportedly sold for more than €275 ...

De Gaulle, by contrast, is in the non-ideological military tradition of modern France; the conception of himself as a latter-day Louis XIV bulks larger in him than the Army thought when it helped ...

The future Louis XIV was born in 1638 at the royal palace of his father, King Louis XIII, and his mother, Queen Anne. Born into ostentatious luxury and unlimited power, he wanted for nothing.

View A BATTLE SCENE OUTSIDE A WALLED TOWN, POSSIBLY KING LOUIS XIV INSPECTING THE FORT OF A FRENCH CITY BATTLE by Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by ...

The Queen has told how she yearned as a young girl to be a beautiful French woman who ends up in the court of the 17th century Sun King, Louis XIV. Camilla, who was crowned Queen last year ...

In 1692, a young French aristocrat visiting King Louis XIV’s royal court was asked if he knew how to dance. ... He formed his own army and stripped aristocrats of their former military duties.