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Louis XIII appears in novels of Robert Merle's Fortune de France series (1977–2003). Louis XIII was portrayed by Edward Arnold in the 1935 film Cardinal Richelieu, with George Arliss portraying the Cardinal. Ken Russell directed the 1971 film The Devils, in which Louis XIII is a significant character, albeit one with no resemblance to the ...
Louis XIII architecture was equally influenced by Italian styles. The greatest French architect of the era, Salomon de Brosse , designed the Luxembourg Palace for Marie de' Medici. De Brosse began a tradition of classicism in architecture that was continued by Jacques Lemercier , who completed the Palais and whose own most famous work of the ...
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Marie de' Medici confronts Cardinal Richelieu before Louis XIII.Illustration by Maurice Leloir (1901). Day of the Dupes (in French: la journée des Dupes) is the name given to a day in November 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading King Louis XIII of France to dismiss Richelieu from power. [1]
Hoc Mazarin is named after Italian prelate Cardinal Mazarin (1602–1661), who served as the chief minister to the kings of France, Louis XIII and Louis XIV, from 1642 until 1661. [1] Mazarin probably invented the game and he was certainly much in favour of it while at the court of Versailles . [ 2 ]
The Vow of Louis XIII is an 1824 oil painting on canvas by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, now in Montauban Cathedral. The painting depicts a vow to the Virgin Mary by Louis XIII of France. It was commissioned by France's Ministry of Interior in August 1820 for the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Montauban.
Louis XIII Crowned by Victory (1635) by Philippe de Champaigne. Louis XIII Crowned by Victory is a 1635 oil on canvas painting by Philippe de Champaigne. [1] [2] Probably commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, it shows Louis XIII, King of France, crowned by a personification of Victory to mark his forces' victory in the Siege of La Rochelle.