French society would sufficiently change by the time of his descendant, Louis XVI, to welcome tolerance in the form of the 1787 Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance. This restored to non-Catholics their civil rights and the freedom to worship openly.[75] With the ...
as they are being chased by what is thought to be a band of Casanova's henchmen. Inside the carriage, readers meet five significant figures from Europe and America at that time; King Louis XVl, Comte Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, statesman, inventor, ambassador to France...
In June 1791, King Louis XVI and his family snuck out of Paris during the night, hoping to escape from the French Revolution and its violence. He planned to escape the country and return with foreign assistance to reclaim control of France, but the people of Varennes stopped and detained hi...
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numerous trips to his resorts, billing taxpayers millions of dollars[xiv]. He has directed members of the armed forces to stay at his property in Scotland, at taxpayers’ expense[xv]. His Vice President and members of his administration stay at his properties[xvi], again lining Trump’s ...
Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022) Faith and The Future (pp. 116-118). Ignatius Press. Kindle Edition. + + + QUOTE FOR JANUARY 2023 St. John writes of the birth of Christ: “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He wa...
In the following year, 13,000 men led by Charles routed 12,000 Danes at theBattle of Landskrona. This proved to be the lastpitched battleof the war since, in September 1678, Christian V evacuated his army back toZealand. In 1679,Louis XIV of Francedictated the terms of a general pacific...
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death, and was succeeded by his son, Philip III (see Louis's letter to him below). His line continued after him until the French Revolution, when King Louis XVI was guillotined on 21 January 1793. At this act of regicide, the Abbe Edgeworth said, "Son of St. Louis, ascend to ...