Françoise Marie, Duchess of Orléans Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse Names Louis-Dieudonné de France House Bourbon Father Louis XIII Mother Anne of Austria Religion Catholicism Signature Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis...
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Born on September 5, 1638, to KingLouis XIIIofFranceand his Habsburg queen,Anne of Austria, the future Louis XIV was his parents’ first child after 23 years of marriage; in recognition of this apparent miracle, he was christened Louis-Dieudonné, meaning “gift of God.” A younger brother...
The Prophetic Ghost of King Louis XVI of France The Prophetic Ghost of King Louis XVI of France The Utopian author Louis-Sebatien Mercier claimed that he saw and spoke with the ghost of Louis XVI. Posted by Chris Woodyard on July 12, 2014 in 18th century, Death, Ghosts, Grim and Gr...
The Life of the Mareschal Duke of Richelieu. Favourite of Louis XIV. &; XV. Comprizing an Interesting Period of Eighty Years The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printi......
Sadly, we don’t know the name of this pachyderm – if it had one – but we do know that a couple of elephants lived in the Tower of London during the Middle Ages. The first elephant to arrive was presented to King Henry III as a gift by King Louis IX of France. ...
Set in France during the rule of King Louis XIV (Pierce Brosnan), The King, having grown fearful of his own mortality enlists a ship of fisherman lead by captain Yves De La Croix (Benjamin Walker) to find a mermaid (Fan Bingbing) so a ceremony can be performed during an eclipse where...
next year, a Massachusetts-planned expedition under WilliamPepperrellwith a British fleet under Sir Peter Warren tookLouisburg. Border warfare was severe but not conclusive. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) returned Louisburg to France, but the hostile feelings that had been aroused did not ...
King Louis XIV of France King Louis XIV of France by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701). King Louis XIV (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) of France known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon. He became King of ...
II’s Privy Council in 1652 and, in 1659, just before the Restoration, he was created the Earl of St Albans. Created ambassador to France in 1661, he would go on to play a key role in helping King Charles II negotiate the secret 1670 Treaty of Dover with the French King Louis XIV....