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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 ...
The kings used the title "King of the Franks" (Latin: Rex Francorum) until the late twelfth century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" (Latin: Rex Franciae; French: roi de France) was Philip II in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which the title "King of the Franks" gradually lost ground. [3]
Louis XIV, who was approaching sixty and tired of exotic animals, [6] had the menagerie enlarged and restored in 1698 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, as a gift for Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchess of Burgundy, then aged 12 and who had arrived at the court a year earlier to become the wife of the Dauphin Louis of France, the King's grandson.
The lexicographer Philibert-Joseph Le Roux had to flee to Brussels after he published Histoire du père La Chaize, jésuite et confesseur du roi Louis XIV où l'on verra les intrigues secrettes qu'il a eues à la cour de France et dans toutes les cours de l'Europe, a pamphlet against de la Chaise. [citation needed]
The Château de Guernon-Ranville (Castle of Guernon-Ranville) is located in the hamlet of Le Bas de Ranville in the commune of Ranville, in the Calvados department of Normandy in Northwestern France. This private 18th-century domain carries the name of the family who were for a long period of time the proprietors of the château.
Hours, Bernard (2002). "Louis XV et sa cour : le roi, l'étiquette et le courtisan : essai historique". Le nœud gordien. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. p. 302. ISBN 2-13-051987-3. Lemarchand, Laurent (2014). "Paris ou Versailles ? La monarchie absolue entre deux capitales (1715-1723)". CTHS-Histoire. Paris: Éditions du Comité des ...
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At the centre of the Place des Victoires is an equestrian monument in honour of King Louis XIV, [1] celebrating the Treaties of Nijmegen concluded in 1678–79. A marshal of France, François de la Feuillade, vicomte d'Aubusson, on his own speculative initiative, demolished the old private mansions on the site.