The prestige of Hermitage (sometimesErmitage) wine can be clearly traced back to the 17th Century, when it was an official wine in the French courts of King Louis XIII and his successor Louis XIV, the "Sun King". Not just the monarchs' preferred wine, it was also used as a gift for ...
Louis XIII ruled in an age of political and military turmoil and spent his reign fighting his own nobility, the French Protestants, and the Spanish. These political and military crises meant that the king could not spend much time on a formal, ceremonial court and that his court was often ...
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1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars 1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden 1931 Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII 1936 French singer Edith Piaf questioned after nightclub owner and her patron Louis Leplee murdered in Paris...
Being at the heart of Europe’s largest enclosed wooded park, Chambord, it was built for King Francis I to serve as a hunting lodge. It is one of the world’s most well-known castles in the world because of its French Renaissance (文艺复兴) building. Chateau de Chenonceau As one of ...
Barley twist is another frequent trait of the Louis XIII style. Louis XIV: Known as the Sun King, he reigned in France between 1643 and 1715. Influenced the Baroque style in furniture during the earlier part of the reign, which later developed into the Regency style. Mahogany and oak were...
Antique Cast Iron Wine Corking Machine from France, Circa 1900 $680.00 Pair of Antique French Painted Oak Louis XVI Style Greek Key Consoles, C. 1880 $7,200.00 Pair of Small 1960s French Reconstituted Stone Planters by Grandon Frès $680.00 Pair of 18th Century Thickly Wrought Iron Chene...
Rooms were more intimate. After the return to Versailles, many of the baroque rooms of Louis XIV were redesigned. The official etiquette was also simplified and the notion of privacy was expanded: the king himself retreated from the official bed at night and conversed in private with his mistr...
” Infidel France had silenced the reproving voice of God’s two witnesses. The word of truth lay dead in her streets, and those who hated the restrictions and requirements of God’s law were jubilant. Men publicly defied the King of heaven. Like the sinners of old, they cried: “How ...
But socialism is only the French surface. Below that, a cabal of billionaires exerts a surprising grip. The French political scientist Patrick Weil says: “You have this country where the ideology is revolutionary and egalitarian. So owners of fortunes protect themselves through different means.” ...