Download or read book King of the World written by Philip Mansel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close. Philip Mansel’s King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography in English of this hypnotic, flawed figure who continues to captivate our attention. This lively work takes Louis outside Versailles and shows the true extent of his global ambitions, with stops in London, Madrid, Constantinople, Bangkok, and beyond. We witness the importance of his alliance with the Spanish crown and his success in securing Spain for his descendants, his enmity with England, and his relations with the rest of Europe, as well as Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We also see the king’s effect on the two great global diasporas of Huguenots and Jacobites, and their influence on him as he failed in his brutal attempts to stop Protestants from leaving France. Along the way, we are enveloped in the splendor of Louis’s court and the fascinating cast of characters who prostrated and plotted within it. King of the World is exceptionally researched, drawing on international archives and incorporating sources who knew the king intimately, including the newly released correspondence of Louis’s second wife, Madame de Maintenon. Mansel’s narrative flair is a perfect match for this grand figure, and he brings the Sun King’s world to vivid life. This is a global biography of a global king, whose power was extensive but also limited by laws and circumstances, and whose interests and ambitions stretched far beyond his homeland. Through it all, we watch Louis XIV progressively turn from a dazzling, attractive young king to a belligerent reactionary who sets France on the path to 1789. It is a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomizes the idea of le grand monarque.

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil written by Jean-Joseph Julaud and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIII (1601-1643), Louis XIV (1638-1715), Louis XV (1710-1774)... Facile à retenir, cette succession de Louis, ce trio de Bourbons qui détient tous les pouvoirs dans la France des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Le premier, Louis XIII le Juste, règne 33 ans, écrase les protestants à La Rochelle, lutte contre l'Espagne envahissante et pratique une politique qui fonde la grandeur de la France. Le deuxième, Louis XIV, le Roi-Soleil, domestique les nobles à Versailles, conduit cinq guerres, chasse les protestants, tout cela pendant les 72 ans de son règne. Négatif en tout, le règne de Louis le Grand ? Non : la France acquiert un prestige considérable. Le troisième, Louis XV, règne 58 ans. "Bien-Aimé" pour le peuple, mais malhabile en politique ! Lorsqu'il meurt, la France ressent les premières vibrations qui vont conduire au puissant séisme de 1789.

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil written by Gilbert Jouin and published by . This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tournez la première page de ce livre de collection... et c'est un peu comme si le rideau rouge se levait devant vous, pour vous raconter l'aventure unique du plus somptueux spectacle musical de ces dernières années. En 200 pages de photos totalement inédites, de secrets de réalisation et de confidences des artistes de la troupe du Roi Soleil, cet ouvrage retrace toutes les étapes de la création d'un spectacle féerique, des premiers castings jusqu'aux représentations triomphales sur les plus prestigieuses scènes de France. Il lève aussi le voile sur le formidable défi relevé par ses auteurs, compositeurs, producteurs, metteurs en scène, costumiers et autres artistes de génie, pour recréer la magie du XVIIe siècle. Revivez l'intégralité du spectacle musical et découvrez Le Roi Soleil comme vous ne l'aviez jamais vu auparavant. En route pour un fabuleux voyage dans le temps et au cœur de l'émotion !

Download or read book The Politics of Religion in Early Modern France written by Joseph Bergin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to be longer and more violent in France than elsewhere in Europe and left a legacy of unresolved tensions between church and state with serious repercussions for each. He then draws together a series of unresolved problems—both practical and ideological—that challenged French leaders thereafter, arriving at an original and comprehensive view of the close interrelations between the political and spiritual spheres of the time. The author considers the powerful religious dimension of French royal power even in the seventeenth century, the shift from reluctant toleration of a Protestant minority to increasing aversion, conflicts over the independence of the Catholic church and the power of the pope over secular rulers, and a wealth of other interconnected topics.

Download or read book Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re enchantment written by Ronald G. Asch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.

Download or read book L Av nement du Roi Soleil written by Pierre Goubert and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil au clair de lune written by Henri Kubnick and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History 1350 1750 written by Hamish Scott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to 'Cultures and Power', opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.

Download or read book Mythology in French Literature written by Phillip Crant and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil written by David Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil written by Nancy Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prince Pen and Sword Eurasian Perspectives written by Maaike van Berkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.

Download or read book Sculpture Collections in Europe and the United States 1500 1930 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the various forms taken by sculpture collections, this volume presents new research on collectors, modes of display, and the aesthetics of viewing sculpture, making a notable addition to the literature on the history of sculpture and art collecting as a cultural phenomenon.

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Roi Soleil written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le roi soleil written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: