louis xiv

     

Henriette-Marie, Queen of Englan

Trivia about louis xiv

  • This king was the great-grandfather of France's King Louis XV
  • As a teenager in 1653, he played the sun in a court performance of the "Ballet de la Nuit"
  • The lavaliere, a type of pendant, is named for the Duchesse de la Valliere, who romanced this "sun king"
  • Whether the man or the decor, Louis Quatorze means this king
  • This 17th century French monarch boasted, "I am the State"
  • A civil war in Paris during his youth convinced this king to build his palace at Versailles
  • The first 18 years of this French king's reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin
  • Name for the style seen here after a king who reigned from 1643 to 1715:
  • In the history of France:Henry III,Henry IV,Louis XIII...
  • 1651:"L'etat c'est moi!"("I am the state")
  • He's credited with the remark "L' etat C'est Moi", "I am the state"
  • 1643 to 1715, in France
  • Henry VII,Louis XIV,Richard III
  • Sometime during his remarkable 72-year reign, he supposedly said, "L'etat c'est moi", or "I am the state"
  • In 1680 this "Sun King" established France's national theatre, the Comedie Francaise
  • Noted for saying "I am the state," he ruled France for 72 years, 1643-1715
  • He was "The Great", "Le Grand Monarque" & "The God-Given" as well as "The Sun King"
  • Court composer Michel-Richard De Lalande gave harpsichord lessons to this "Sun King"'s daughters
  • A Fontange is a lace-&-ribbon headdress named for the Duchesse de Fontanges, a paramour of this long-reigning king
  • A grand alliance was formed in 1689 against this sun king to enforce the treaty's provisions
  • This "Sun King" sniffed, "England is a little garden full of sour weeds"
  • For 13 years, Madame de Montespan was the sunshine of this Sun King's life
  • Born in 1638, the first child of a 22-year marriage, this king was christened Louis Dieudonne, or "gift of God"
  • At the death of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661, this French king declared that he would serve as his own prime minister
  • After 72 years on the throne, he finally died on September 1, 1715 in Versailles, France
  • After the death of Maria Theresa in 1683, this "Sun King" secretly married Madame de Maintenon
  • "Le Roi Soleil"
  • Long-serving French solar monarch
  • In 1675 Jules Hardouin-Mansart became architect to this king & began redesigning the Palace of Versailles
  • This French king's support for Moliere & his troupe allowed them to get their own theater in Paris around 1660
  • In 1651 he reportedly told the French parliament, "L'etat c'est moi", or "I am the state"
  • At his death in 1715, he'd served 72 years as French king, longer than any monarch in European history
  • Sacre bleu!!By 1708 he'd been on the throne of France for an incredible 65 years
  • Although this king had already reigned for fifty-eight years, he's seen here in his coronation robes to add majesty.
  • In 1661 this king, no slouch as a dancer himself, founded the Academie Royale de Danse
  • A fancy sleeve style was named for the Marquise de Montespan, who began dallying with this King around 1667
  • He secretly married his mistress Madame de Maintenon after Maria Theresa had died
  • In 1671 Joliet was a signatory of a declaration increasing this king's realm in the New World
  • The Durant's "Story of Civilization" includes "The Age of" this longest-reigning French king
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) Legend says the Royale was created in an attempt to do the harder entrechat quatre by this 17th-century French king, under whom ballet became a strict art form
  • Winning favor by glorifying this man in paintings, Charles Le Brun became the arbiter of French taste
  • Bernini's sculpture of this French king set the standard for royal portraits for 100 years
  • This French king recognized William of Orange as William II, King of England, under the terms of 1697's Treaty of Ryswick
  • In 1682 he moved his court to Versailles
  • On May 14, 1643 the Sun rose on the reign of this 4-year-old king whose father had died at age 42
  • The sun shines on the Quebec City bust of this French king
  • Mme. de Maintenon was governess to this king's out-of-wedlock children before she became his mistress c. 1670
  • September 5, 1638Saint-Germain-En-Laye
  • He's the last king of France whose reign straddled 2 centuries