"Originally a hunting lodge, it was enlarged by Louis XIII and Louis XIV."
What would the Duke of Marlborough ? have been without Louis XIV?
Louis XIV was running short of seasoned troops and was in the market for a good mercenary army.
The creation of the great castle was due to Louis XIV who abandoned the Louvre to build a royal palace.
It took the old king Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. And set him gently on the ground.
To meet this question modern history carefully relates that Napoleon was a very great genius, and that Louis XIV. was very haughty, or that certain writers wrote certain books.
Nevertheless, Voltaire said of this city, that "before Louis XIV., it possessed but four fine monuments": the dome of the Sorbonne, the Val de Grace e, the modern Louvre, and I know not what the fourth was--the Luxembourg, perhaps.
"Louis XIV's keen support of the arts earned him the nickname "The Sun King", after Apollo, Greek god of the arts."
Many opposition deputies boycotted the event, held at the palace of Versailles, once Louis XIV's royal seat, on the grounds that it breached the principle of the separation of powers.
Both Louis XIV and Charles II were dab hands.
French composer who was court organist at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV.
C'est toujours l'impatience de gagner qui fait perdre. / Louis XIV- 着急想赢总是造成失败。
Louis XIV loved to dance and in 1653, he appeared in a court ballet, Le Ballet de la Nuit as the Sun King.
The throne is modelled on the throne of Louis XIV. It is chic in design and unique in shape. It has a velvet cushion with embroidered gold silk and a toilet chair opening.
The conflict was centered over, the French King, Louis XIV's attempt to seat a Bourbon ( His own grandson Phillip of Anjou) on the vacant throne of Spain.
Louis XIV[France, 1638-1715]
"It has always been so, my dear Morrel, since the reign of Louis XIV.
Just beyond the borders of the Hotel however lies a world of castles, gardens and amusements to explore, including the legendary Royal Domain of Louis XIV.
法国国王路易十四（Louis XIV）爱喝勃艮第红酒和香槟的无气泡酒，他的宫廷是大多数酒类品评的权威场所。
By the time of Louis XIV's death in 1715, ballet had al ready got the basis of its technique and its terminology (entrechat, coupe, cabriole, chasse were steps codified by then).
At one time, Winston owned the famous Hope Diamond, once the property of French King Louis XIV.
A city of north-central France west-southwest of Paris. It is best known for its magnificent palace, built by Louis XIV in the mid-17th century, where the treaty ending World War I was signed in1919. Population, 91, 494.
Was it not Louis XIV, fulfilling the request of Louis XIII?
"In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes; over the next several years, more than 400,000 French Protestants left France. "
--the Paris of Louis XIV.,in the Invalides: grand, rich, gilded, cold; --the Paris of Louis XV.
French consort of Louis XIV widow of French writer Paul Scarron, she secretly married the king(c.1685)after the death of his first wife.
One popular theory, that he was an older brother of Louis XIV, became the basis for Alexander Dumas' classic tale the Man in the Iron Mask.
Women as far back as Louis XIV's court used to eat lemons to freshen their breath and redden their lips.
