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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.
The Louis XIII style or Louis Treize was a fashion in French art and architecture, especially affecting the visual and decorative arts. Its distinctness as a period in the history of French art has much to do with the regency under which Louis XIII began his reign (1610–1643).
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 period styles is the collective name for five distinct styles of French architecture and interior design. The styles span the period from 1610 to 1793. The styles span the period from 1610 to 1793.
XIII. Regi Christianissimo in sua inauguratione, a poem in heroic verse addressed to Louis XIII of France, on his inauguration. [1] [7] [8] He soon became an eloquent and popular preacher in the chief cities of France, but he aspired to the public admiration by the force and consequence of his writings. In his style, he had a peculiar turn for ...
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars The Execution of Cinq-Mars and de Thou. The State Barge of Cardinal Richelieu on the Rhone by Paul Delaroche.. Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi kwafje də ʁyze]; 1620 – 12 September 1642) was a favourite of King Louis XIII of France, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies ...
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]
The diary of Jean Héroard (main witness of the childhood of Louis XIII) describes the relationships between the King and his sub-governor. Pluvinel's student, Louis XIII. In 1594, Pluvinel founded the "Academie d'Equitation" near what is now Place des Pyramides, a long-time dream. There, the French nobility was trained not only in horsemanship ...