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 monarch in...
5, page 250, it is stated that Louis XIV of France was treated with quinine. This is not strictly true, in that quinine was not extracted from cinchona bark by Pelletier and Caventan in France until 1820, whereas Louis XIV was born in 1639 and died in 1715. The bark of the tree ...
Louis was the king of Spain in 1724, son of Philip V. Louis was born during the War of the Spanish Succession, which disputed his French father’s succession to the Spanish throne; thus, his birth was celebrated by the French and the Spanish. Louis XIV o
Citizens were permitted to build a new and indefensible town on a plain across the the river Aude. It was laid out in the latest fashion in a grid pattern and known as the Bastide de Saint Louis (after King Louis IX of France). Later, in the fourteenth century, the pentagonal city was...
The Louis XIII style began when this king built a house pavilion inVersailles.The construction of the building was in stone from Paris with inserted red bricks. His successor,Louis XIV,did not demolish the hunting lodge, but rather expanded it until he reached the building that we admire today...