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[4] [1] By contrast, Guèvremont's novels in the same period continued to follow Quebec's more traditionalist romans du terroir style. [3] Grignon released the short story collection Le Déserteur et autres récits de la terre in 1934. As well, he wrote literary and political criticism, including Les Vivants et les autres and Ombres et Clameurs.
Le Jeu du Roi ("the king's game") is a 1976 novel by the French writer Jean Raspail. It focuses on the subject of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia . It was published by éditions Robert Laffont .
En canot sur les chemins d'eau du Roi ("By Canoe on the King's Waterways") is a 2005 travel book by the French writer Jean Raspail. It retells the North American voyage the author made by canoe in 1949, following the route of the 17th-century missionary Father Marquette .
The Conseil du Roi (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃sɛj dy ʁwa]; 'King's Council'), also known as the Royal Council, is a general term for the administrative and governmental apparatus around the King of France during the Ancien Régime designed to prepare his decisions and to advise him.
Set in the 14th century during the reigns of the last five kings of the direct Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, the series begins as the French king Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar.
Louis XIV Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 King of France (more...) Reign 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715 Coronation 7 June 1654 Reims Cathedral Predecessor Louis XIII Successor Louis XV Regent Anne of Austria (1643–1651) Chief ministers See list Cardinal Mazarin (1643–1661) Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1661–1683) The Marquis of Louvois (1683–1691) Born (1638-09-05) 5 September 1638 ...
Angels of Sin (French: Les Anges du péché) is a 1943 French film directed by Robert Bresson, in his feature directorial debut.Made in 1943, nine years after his comedy short Public Affairs, it was Bresson's only film released during the German occupation of France.
This title Rex Christianissimus, or Roi Très-chrétien owed its origins to the long, and distinctive, relationship between the Catholic Church and the Franks. France was the first modern state recognised by the Church, and was known as the 'Eldest Daughter of the Church'; Clovis I, the king of the Franks, had been recognised by the papacy as a protector of Rome's interests.