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3 days ago · Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
3 days ago · Louis XIV Louis XIV, detail of a portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701; in the Louvre, Paris. Throughout his long reign Louis XIV (1643–1715) never lost the hold over his people he had assumed at the beginning.
3 days ago · Lodewijk XIV van Frankrijk (Frans: Louis XIV; [n 1] Kasteel van Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 5 september 1638 – Kasteel van Versailles, 1 september 1715), bekend als Lodewijk de Grote (Frans: Louis le Grand) en de Zonnekoning (Frans: le Roi-Soleil), was een telg uit het koninklijke huis Bourbon.
1 day ago · In October 1685 Louis XIV of France issued the Edict of Fontainebleau revoking the 1598 Edict of Nantes which had given French Protestants the right to practise their religion; over the next four years, an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 went into exile, 40,000 of whom settled in London. [15]
3 days ago · Louis XIV, the longest-reigning sovereign monarch whose reign is verifiable by exact date. This is a list of the longest-reigning monarchs in history, detailing the monarchs and lifelong leaders who have reigned the longest, ranked by length of reign.
2 days ago · France - Kings, Revolution, Napoleon: Charlemagne, Louis XIV, the House of Bourbon, and other major rulers and dynasties of France.
2 days ago · France - Fronde, Civil War, Nobles: The years of Louis XIV’s minority were dominated by the Fronde, a series of civil disturbances that lasted from 1648 to 1653. The government’s financial difficulties were once more at the root of the trouble.
6 days ago · Hyacinthe Rigaud’s “Portrait of Louis XIV” serves as an idyllic artistic illustration of the mechanisms of Absolutism which Louis XIV established in France. The monarch, who was well into his sixties during the time of this portrait, is depicted in the classic style of an Absolutist ruler.
2 days ago · Oct. 2, 2024. Arriving to a Louis Vuitton show at Nicolas Ghesquière’s regular Paris Fashion Week venue, the Cour Carrée du Louvre, there’s often a distinct sense of time travel. By the time ...
2 days ago · The conflict shifted the balance of power in favour of France, and set the stage for the expansionist wars of Louis XIV which dominated Europe for the next sixty years. Structural origins. The 1552 Peace of Passau ended the Schmalkaldic War, a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics within the Holy Roman Empire.
