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Louis XIII (French pronunciation: [lwi tʁɛz]) is a cognac produced by Rémy Martin, a company headquartered in Cognac, France, and owned by the Rémy Cointreau Group. The name was chosen as a tribute to King Louis XIII of France , the reigning monarch when the Rémy Martin family settled in the Cognac region.
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In recent times, however, the range has expanded dramatically, with a core range of 12, 15, 18 and 25-years-old, as well as no-age-statement specialty and luxury offerings. Prices at the top end often cost more than five figures. [10]
The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of France (1660–1690). After about 1690, thanks in large part to the furniture designer André Charles Boulle , a more original and delicate style appeared, sometimes known as ...
Until that time, rum from the country had been distilled in other areas of the Philippines. [2] He founded the Bleeding Heart Rum Company to manufacture the rum in Negros which is considered the sugarcane capital of the country. [2] Don Papa is named after Papa Isio, a leader of the Philippine Revolution during the 1890s. [2]
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 ...
With the death of Louis XV on May 10, 1774, his grandson Louis XVI became King of France at age twenty. The new king had little interest in the arts, but his wife, Marie-Antoinette, and her brothers-in-law, the Comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII) and the Comte d'Artois (the future Charles X), were deeply interested in the arts, gave their protection to artists, and ordered large amounts ...
Following the occupation of the Philippines by the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War, the American military government issued regular stamps overprinted with the word "Philippines", for postal purposes. Stamps issued on June 30, 1899, were used up to August 1906, when the American civil government that supplanted the ...